You return home from a job interview. Or from a lunch with someone you've recently met. Or from a business trip where you met some new people. Or from a meeting with your child's teacher. What's your first action? Catch up with e-mail? Go through your mail? How about send a card? In these days marked by... Continue Reading →
Those Entitled Millenials
Do you have a younger person on your team (or maybe even a boss) that, given the right day, can drive you crazy? They seem entitled. Perhaps flighty or scattered? Maybe even unprofessional at times? Millenials (typically considered those born after 1980) are easy to bash. But Nancy Lublin provides a helpful perspective in a... Continue Reading →
“I will not let quality get in the way of releasing on time!”
Yep, those words were really said. Out loud. On purpose. By a manager. To his team. Under stress. A participant in this week's project management workshop shared the story. I don't know the manager but my guess is he's probably a reasonable, rational, and decent person. Yet under stress, when we're in the heat of... Continue Reading →
