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Steve Wilheir
Boston, MA
Project Management Mentor
Interests: Project management, organizational psychology, baby ducks.
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Commented Oct 29, 2011 on Show 356 - Why Companies Could Become Irrelevant at The Engaging Brand
Show 356 - Why Companies Could Become Irrelevant
Show 356 of The Engaging Brand leadership and marketing podcast is ready just for you. To subscribe or listen for free, you don't need to download anything and all explained at the end of the post. Dov Seidman is the founder of LRN, a company that helps businesses develop ethical corporate cult...
Conflict can be a (pun fairly intended) double-edged sword. I've seen meetings where no one has read the preparatory material and go into a meeting blindly accepting everything because they don't have any real insight into the problems at hand. Otoh, I've seen meeting degrade to near fisticuffs when political rivals smash one another's ideas simply because they represent the wrong side of the organization. The trick is to know how much conflict to allow, when to table the conversion, and when to get out the 3' wide fluffy punching gloves so those two can just go somewhere and work out their issues.
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Commented Sep 17, 2011 on 6 Tips to Reinvent your Next Meeting at The Engaging Brand
6 Tips to Reinvent your Next Meeting
Many of you will know how I hate meetings....not great meetings...just those which are a waste of everyone's time. Anyway, coming up later in August on The Engaging Brand podcast is a discussion on meetings with Al Pittampalli who is a meeting culture warrier! His new book is called Read This Be...
Maybe "complex" is simply becoming a buzzword no one in the marketing department really understands, (ab)used to fluff out product descriptions like XML, cloud-based, and sophisticated.
Commented Sep 16, 2011 on Quote of the Day - Connectivity Complexity in Large Scale Systems at Herding Cats
Quote of the Day - Connectivity Complexity in Large Scale Systems
The mystery of their intentions lies only in their terms - Thomas Vaughan The terms "complexity" and "chaos" are often times used to describe something that is not understand. But that has nothing to do with the "understandability" of the thing being described. The same is true for the next gene...
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Adding it to my NetFlix queue, which I ALSO happen to view occasionally on my iPad. Great minds, they say...
Commented Sep 16, 2011 on The Best Management Movie - Ever at Herding Cats
The Best Management Movie - Ever
I took home an iPad from the office to take a training course. It is the Michael Hammer process management course. While "studying" for the course, I visited by NetFlix account to see how it worked on the iPad. Very good by the way. While looking for instant movies, a memory came to me - maybe b...
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Timeless and spot on. It's amazing how often when a project goes awry that one of these items is out of whack.
Commented Sep 15, 2011 on 5 Immutable Principles at Herding Cats
5 Immutable Principles
I've spoken about this before. There are 5 Immutable Principles of successful project management. No matter what method used to manage the project, develop the product, or what ever technique you want to use for getting to the end, these principles must be in place. What Does Done Look Like...
Listening to conjecture does not accomplish anything. Nor does analysis paralysis. Perhaps the best path is one that accepts either, in moderation.
Commented Sep 15, 2011 on Quote of the Day at Herding Cats
Quote of the Day
This is indeed a mystery, [remarked Watson]. What do you imagine that it means? I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suite theories, instead of theories to suit facts. - Sherlock Holmes Why do we insist on listening ...
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