Are you a leader or a tracker?
We have truly messed up our job titles. Somehow, somewhere, the job title project manager became lame. I don’t…
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It’s Novel writing month: join NaNoWriMo!
This Thursday marks the beginning of national novel writing month – That’s right. A bunch of crazy people write…
Lessons from amazing projects: Russian Ark
We’ve all had tough projects, but this one might just top them all, and it hits on three of…
30 hours in Philly: a speed travelogue
After speaking at MX-East Tuesday, in the quaint retreat at Normandy farms, I hopped in a cab for the…
Into the Wild: movie review (& more)
This is in two parts: first, a quick and dirty movie review. Second, a short essay on the book,…
Why you should be bad at something
I read an NYT article recently about The Really Terrible Orchestra. Their goal, in their own words, is as…
Upcoming speaking: Philly, Villanova U, Boston
Travel for the year is winding down – here’s what I have left: Philadeliphia, PA, MX-East, Oct 22nd Philadeliphia,…
Why I love Australia
I just returned from speaking on innovation at the Web Directions conference in Sydney, followed by two weeks of vacation…
Top ten die hard travel tips
I take 10-15 trips a year, which puts me in the mid-range of air-travelers. I’m not a platinum club…
Forums locked due to general hate of phpbb
I locked down the forums recently on the basic principle that if takes more time to maintain and de-spam…
CMU study on online privacy – opinions wanted
Some good friends at Carnegie Mellon University are researching online privacy policies, and have a clever little survey for…
Six reasons why I haven’t posted in a month
Was in Ukraine all last week, birthplace of my great-grandfather, to teach at SpiderProject’s PM Week and to see…
Come to MX-East and I will buy you dinner
I’m speaking on innovation at the upcoming adaptive path conference MX-EAST, on October 21-23 near Philadelphia, PA. It’s a…
Wednesday short notes
Someone yelled at me on e-mail that i have a curiously sweet technorati ranking, but that i don’t link…
Innovation quote of the day
“It often happens, with regard to new inventions, that one part of the general public finds them useless and…
Understanding book sales
Writing books is hard enough, but selling them is an entirely different challenge. While I’ve learned much, I’m no…
Help decide the title of a book
For reasons I can’t fully explain here, the 2nd edition of Art of project management will have a new…
Does open source help or hurt innovation?
Over at the Jem Report, Jem Matzan had some great questions for me about how my studies of innovation…
How to write a book – the short honest truth
Every author I know gets asked the same question: How do you write a book? It’s a simple question,…
(Seattle) next ignite, tommorow night
O’reilly’s ignite event, a fun gathering of geekish entertainment, is on again – same venue (Capital Hill’s CHAC), but…