Archive for the "Confront" category

Learning to Avoid Blame

Over at BrainBasedBusiness.com Dr. Ellen Weber posts about how Secondary Schools Stunt 3 Skills Business Needs. Those three critical skills? Problem solving, decision making, and creative thinking. It's worth your read. Here's the comment I left there:
Thanks for your great blog and posts. I appreciate your prod for more intelligent secondary schools, and like where […]

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Does Mastering Responsibility Require Total Replication?

As the next session of Global Educators Academy approaches Linda asks:
I've thought many times of attending your workshop. Would you tell me how attendees use the material when they teach. Do you require a total replication of your ideas, or can the material (with plenty of credit for your work) be incorporated into a broader […]

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Gantthead.com covers Responsibility Redefined

Doug DeCarlo, author if the amazing book eXtreme Project Management, penned a beautiful short article on Responsibility Redefined for his gantthead.com column.  See Agility Begins with Responsibility. Thanks Doug! Nicely done.

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CIO.com reports on Responsibility Redefined

Responsibility Redefined is featured alongside Emotional Intelligence on CIO.com. Read the article here: 
Soft Skills for CIOs and Aspiring CIOs: Four Ways to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence
Here's an excerpt:
The cornerstone of emotional intelligence and soft skills is responsibility. Everybody has met the manager who is always looking for someone to blame, who micromanages or who condescends. […]

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Breaking Through

The monthly Agile Project Management E-Mail Advisor I write for the Boston-area think tank Cutter Consortium hit in-boxes today. It’s titled Collaborative Leadership Basics, Part 10: How Do You Get a Team to Develop a Clear and Elevating Goal? You can get any or all of Cutter’s email advisors by signing up for them. Here’s a brief excerpt from this one, then I’ll connect it to a fascinating email I received yesterday:

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