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More About those Glimmers in the Darkness
[NB to my Faithful Readers: Wednesday's post that was truncated has been corrected! If you missed the last couple paragraphs, they are up there now. Technical difficulties ... ! ] In yesterday's post, I alluded to headlines in
Those Ups and Downs
One of my favorite scenes in movie history is from The Lion in Winter, which takes place at Christmas in the castle where Henry II (Peter O'Toole) has imprisoned his uppity spouse Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katherine Hepburn). In the midst of a raging domestic battle over the king's mistress and his succ
My New Favorite PM Blog
... well, besides our own that is--is Paul Ritchie's/SAP's Crossderry blog, especially the PM Quote of the Day feature. Worth starting your day with a cuppa joe and some words of wisdom. Paul's wide-ranging net finds relevance to our work days in sources from Esther Dyson to Sappho. Kudos, Paul ...
Hard Times Call for Agility
For an old-time print-publishing dinosaur like myself, publishing on a blog is the very essence of agility. The ability to “converse” with readers in real time seems as magical to me as the telephone must have seemed to a generation of folks accustomed to the pace of letter-writing. It also has an e
Measurement Answers the Question: Are Your Strategy and Processes Working?
Without proper performance measurement, there's no way to know. That's why we need to measure performance. Yet the question persists: Does the cost of measurement pay for the value? My response is a classic one … it depends. It depends on who's asking you to measure…and why? For example, if you