“Boy Eats Own Face” (a.k.a. How to get my attention)

If you want to get my attention and you really need something done, take a lesson from the micro-blogging world:  Get your MAIN message across in under 140 characters.
If you want me to take action, don’t bury the action items at the bottom of a 3 page email.  Put them at the top!!!  Give me the [...]

The more things change, the more they stay the same

Just stumbled on this blog post which quotes a Knowledge@Wharton piece from 2001: Measuring Returns on IT Investments: Some Tools and Techniques.
It’s the date of the article that I find interesting…and to look back and remember that we’ve been struggling with the same attitudes around quantification of the value of collaboration software for so many [...]

Parry! Dodge! Spin! Thrust!

When people ask me about my approach to consulting, managing, or sales, I often revert to two analogies to describe how I’ve survived this long and still maintained a small portion of my sanity. (Despite the following evidence to the contrary)
 

1)  Being a Project Manager/Consultant/IT Specialist  is like being a goaltender:
I am a hockey goaltender [...]