Johanna Rothman shares some thoughts today on the rhythm of projects. Riffing off the flow of the Superbowl game -- and the roles offense and defense can play in projects -- she offers this cautionary advice:
If you attempt to work ...READ»
The Nub is one of my almost-daily reads, and it's an impressive business-related blog. While Jon doesn't always offer a lot of commentary or context, he finds some of the best business-oriented online resources. Take this entry, for ...READ»
Johanna Rothman offers some thoughtful ideas on the value of lunch meetings.
The quality of the conversation over lunch tends to be richer, especially when people take a full hour for lunch. Lunch is free peer consulting across the ...READ»
In the blog Monkeymagic, FC Now reader Piers Young expands on a previous FC Now entry about gossip and its value.
He wraps that exchange with a broader range of Web research, incorporating the Rumor Test, Chinese Whispers, and the ...READ»
In an interesting followup to yesterday's entry about call monitoring, Brain Waves' Zack Lynch reports that researchers in Sandia National Laboratories' Advanced Concepts Group have developed a tool that "monitors your perspiration ...READ»
FC Now reader Chris Corrigan offers an insightful comment in response to an entry yesterday.
When I am working with organizations who complain that they have communication problems, I always ask about gossip. I ask how long it ...READ»
The Priory, a Betty Ford-like clinic in the UK has started treating obsessive SMS message senders. The first recorded SMS addict almost went bankrupt because of his 200-message-a-day habit, and some compulsive texters send SMS ...READ»
Dave Pollard shared some interesting thoughts on meetings, tables, and what seating says about perceived leadership over the weekend.
Ever notice that in business meetings in rooms with rectangular board room tables no one really ...READ»
Ramon Ray, a member of the New York City Company of Friends group, today transmitted a pointer to Sunday's New York Times Magazine article about how "PowerPoint Makes You Dumb." The piece opens:
In August, the Columbia Accident ...READ»
If you regularly schedule conference calls with remote colleagues, distributed teams, and other partners, you might want to rethink your teamwork tactics. According to a recent RoperASW/Tandberg poll, less than half of respondents ...READ»
In a recent interview with Wired magazine, Bill Joy gives a hint to the strategic implications of lunch: "The ideal project is one where people don't have meetings, they have lunch. The size of the team should be the size of the ...READ»
The Wall Street Journal today considers the converging crop of address book updating services. Here are some of the major players in the space so far:
AddresSender: While this didn't make the Journal's roundup, the lightweight free ...READ»
In addition to Bill's presentation tips in chapters six and nine of his book, Mike Hillyer today offers some insight on "avoiding PowerPoint presentations that suck."
Hillyer addresses when to use PowerPoint, but also how. Among his ...READ»
In today's Wall Street Journal, science writer Sharon Begley describes how physical gestures improve communication. Beyond body language, the research of University of Chicago professor Susan Goldin-Meadow indicates that hand ...READ»
Last nite, I continued my Company of Friends Book Tour with my hometown CoF group in Morristown, New Jersey. Huge thanks to Stephen Harris who organized the dinner and to all who attended...awesome conversation!
Our discussions ...READ»
As Bill mentioned early this morning, how you leave voicemails for coworkers and partners can be important. What you do with voicemails people leave for you can be just as important.
For the last couple of months, I've kept a ...READ»
Advice on how to leave an a voicemail may seem awfully remedial, but, um, you wouldn't believe, um, how much our research has shown (...Huh? Yeah...I'll be in that meeting in a second, I'm just leaving this voicemail...Sorry...Where ...READ»
Shades of Martin Seligman's learned optimism and the work of Peter Naylor and Claire Crittenden, I recently received a forward of an email from Sherwood Partners' emotional intelligence expert Mark Goulston:
When someone says or ...READ»
The October edition of Strogoff Consulting's newsletter Negotiating Strategies offers some useful project management advice that's applicable while working with clients after a contract has been signed. Even though the newsletter is ...READ»
In their book Unshrink, Max McKeown and Philip Whiteley estimate that bullying -- ongoing intimidation and humiliation -- in the workplace can decrease an employee's effectiveness by 50 percent. This in turn reduces the effectiveness ...READ»
A recent entry in FC Now reader Earl Gray's blog Skunkworks offers an interesting corollary to Chuck Salter's recent FC Now entry Project Dysfunction.
Gray deconstructs last week's episode of The Restaurant, analyzing the ...READ»
