This article, New Breed of Business Gurus Rises, in Monday’s Wall Street Journal says that 3 of the top 5 business gurus are focused on issues of psychology. That means managing attention is what leaders want to learn about. The attention of one’s employees is a leader’s most scarce resource. When you learn to […]
Projects@Work published an excerpt from Kimberly Wiefling's new book evocatively titled Scrappy Project Management: The 12 Predictable and Avoidable Pitfalls Every Project Faces.
I haven't read the rest of the book although I look forward to doing so after seeing the 80-second video she posted on Amazon.com (see what she does with the PMBOK!). To […]
Last week in the Southern California mountain resort town of Lake Arrowhead a small group of senior leaders came together to launch their trek toward building a great company. I was honored to support them. And they were thrilled with their experience and the results of their meeting. Here's what my client reported to me […]
Fellow Cutter consultant Jeroen van Tyn from writes:
Christopher, I'm writing a Cutter Benchmark Review on IT Trends, and one of the trends relates to innovation. I remember a conversation we had at the Cutter Summit earlier this year, and I wanted to reference something you shared with me.
You made a statement […]
Awake in the middle of the night, I arose for a cup of go-back-to-sleep tea and found Alan Weiss’s newsletter Balancing Act® in my in-box. Alan Image of Million Dollar Consulting by Alan Weissis the best-selling author of Million Dollar Consulting wherein he tells how to make a million dollars a year as a solo consultant with no employees and thus low overhead, so you get to keep the entire million and don’t have to manage anyone. I’m not there, but I have been on his mailing list for years now and I enjoy a love/hate relationship with Weiss. More about that below.
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