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Kudos to Cinda Voegtli

Kudos to Cinda Voegtli over at The Art of Project Management and her post on teamwork and individual responsibility. Way to go! She echoes the theme of my book and brings music to my ears.

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Complaining and Responsibility

Chief Happiness Officer Alexander Kjerulf is writing a series of blog entries about who has the right to complain. In thinking about responsibility and complaining, I'm quite sure that every human has the inalienable right to complain anytime about anything. No qualms there.
And, as a quick aside, I certainly realize there are laws and policies [...]

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Job Corps contractor applauds Responsibility Redefined

I spent Thursday in Layton, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City, with 100 Job Corps center directors, assistant directors, and regional and corporate executives of MTC, the largest Job Corps contractor. They operate twenty-some Job Corps centers stretching from Maine to Hawaii. Job Corps is a U.S. government training program that helps young people ages sixteen to twenty-four get a better job, make more money, and take control of their lives.

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Are people more reponsible today?

My friend Susan Price proposes that personal responsibility is evolving. She says:
Is our culture evolving into one where each person will have more choice and take more (appropriate) responsibility? Where are we on the curve, if so – and what can we do to further it?
I obviously assume it's happening, and I think it's [...]

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Stowe Boyd Suggests Blogging a Few Times a Day

I’m at the Cutter Summit in Cambridge, MA, where I arrived Sunday and will leave tomorrow. Social networking tools expert Stowe Boyd presented yesterday and inspired me—or maybe overwhelmed me—with the pace of movement toward Web 2.0 (Web 2.0 refers to a sea change involving the disaggregation of features and applications on the web). Reading [...]

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