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Project management for non-project managers

Friday, 23 September 2011 09:24 Julie Desmond

A kid stopped by my neighbor Tom’s house the other day lugging a box of popcorn. Tom wasn’t interested in buying popcorn, thanked the kid, and shut the door. An hour later, Tom went out for a bike ride. Outside, the bike was gone, but there was a box of popcorn in its place. The kid got Tom to buy the popcorn, but it came at a pretty high price. While I don’t condone stealing bikes, I do think there are ways to motivate people to do what you want them to do without hitting them over the head with the fact that they have been motivated.

White House Diary

Tuesday, 19 October 2010 16:49 Book Review by Kam Williams

“During my four years in the White House, I kept a personal diary by dictating my thoughts and observations several times each day… When dictating entries to my diary… I intertwined my personal opinio...

Man Talk: What is a mid-life crisis?

Monday, 16 April 2012 10:43 Timothy Houston

This week I attended a motorcycle safety course. This was my last step before purchasing a motorcycle. Because my first attempt of owning and riding a motorcycle is taking place after turning 50, the ...

Talking compensation

Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:28 Julie Desmond

This topic just keeps coming up. Only three days into his new position, Ricky sent me the only email that makes me crazy. He wrote, “I just want to be sure I got the vacation I was promised when I t...

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

Wednesday, 03 November 2010 17:43 Book Review by Kam Williams

“There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus… suggests that it is creating as a revolt against silence, creating when both the creation and the rec...

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