Success and Failure
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.
– James Cameron, The Return of James Cameron
Topic
leadership
A collection of 94 issues
New Book Review: "Manage Your Project Portfolio"
New book review for Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects, by Johanna Rothman, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2009:
Rothman's latest effort is all about how to create and use a project portfolio effectively. Note that while the author discusses how a collection of projects
New Book Review: "Don't Just Roll the Dice"
New book review for Don't Just Roll the Dice: A Usefully Short Guide to Software Pricing, by Neil Davidson, Simple Talk Publishing, 2009:
This white paper sized introductory guide to software pricing is very well put together. After Davidson walks the reader through some basic concepts from economics
Pro Bono: Taproot Foundation Project Manager - Part 2
My pro bono Taproot Foundation project team completed the Delivery, Assessment, and Closing phases Thursday night according to the Ernst & Young devised methodology (the current Project Management Institute equivalent is the Executing and Controlling phase combined with the Closing phase) executed for our nonprofit client in the Chicago Loop
New Book Review: "Strategy Safari"
New book review for Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour through the Wilds of Strategic Management, by Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand, and Joseph Lampel, Free Press, 1998:
Authors Mintzberg, Ahlstrand, and Lampel provide the oft-cited "The Blind Men and the Elephant" by John Godfrey Saxe as a backdrop to
Past Book Review (July 13, 2008): "The Opposable Mind"
Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking, by Roger L. Martin, Harvard Business School Press, 2007:
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Great topic. Essentially, Martin argues that leaders need to integrate ideas in order to succeed.
New Book Review: "First Among Equals"
New book review for First Among Equals: How to Manage a Group of Professionals, by Patrick J. McKenna and David H. Maister, Free Press, 2005:
Admittedly, this reviewer does agree with some of the earlier reviews here that this book does borrow some material from other works, and it might
Pro Bono: Taproot Foundation Project Manager - Part 1
My pro bono Taproot Foundation project team completed the Draft Direction phase last night according to the Ernst & Young devised methodology (the current Project Management Institute equivalent is the Executing and Controlling phase) currently being executed for our nonprofit client in the Chicago Loop.
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New Book Review: "The Future of Management"
New book review for The Future of Management, by Gary Hamel and Bill Breen, Harvard Business School Press, 2007:
In the preface to this text, the authors indicate that their goal is "to help [the reader] become a 21st-century management pioneer; to equip [the reader] to reinvent the principles,
New Book Review: "The Strategy Paradox"
New book review for The Strategy Paradox: Why Committing to Success Leads to Failure (and What to Do About It), by Michael E. Raynor, Currency Doubleday, 2007:
Raynor explains through several case studies that poor luck is usually the cause of company failure, not poor planning or execution. Any future