Stream of Consciousness
Umair Haque got me thinking. Again. It's getting to be very disconcerting. I seriously need to either stop reading his stuff or start writing more in response to his articles. I'm not out of the woods on that one yet. The trigger article this time? His
Stream of Consciousness
A project is defined, in part, by its outcomes. They describe us what it looks like at our intended project destination, in terms of where we are but also in terms of what we have learned, gained, developed. By defining good outcomes, we actually develop a great way to regularly
Stream of Consciousness
Once in a while, just once in a long while you come across a blog post so to the point, so well written, that it stops you in your tracks and you hear yourself thinking, almost aloud: "They're talking about me!" I had that experience with
risk management
Attending an IIA training in Brussels today on Corporate Governance audits, an excellent training by the way, we (the participants) started discussing risk appetite. The discussion got me thinking about the way we establish or validate risk appetite and the issues that come with that. Let me take you through
Getting Things Done
A lot of the information I deal with, either for my day job or for my teaching or blogging, I get from different web published sources, be it blogs or websites. As I really don't have the time to visit each of these sites every single day, I
Getting Things Done
I’ve been a long term user of Instapaper, especially of Marco Arment’s excellent iOS app. I understand there is even an Android application available. Let me illustrate how I use it in my workflow. Gathering inputs I have a rather long commute to work. It takes me about
Stream of Consciousness
Learned helplessness in organisations has become an agent of the resistance Ron Ashkenas wrote a very interesting article on the HBR blog a while back: in "Learned helplessness in organisations" he addresses the "external" excuses that process owners manage to come up with in order not
Stream of Consciousness
I’ve been thinking about the entire subsection of GTD which relates to better definition of outcomes and ultimately better results. The storytelling and delegation post can be considered as a couple of ideas aiming to solve a subset of that entire issue, which can pretty much be summarized as
Stream of Consciousness
I've expanded on a post I wrote for my old reengineering blog in 2010. Enjoy! I’ve seen a lot of failed reengineering attempts. There are a lot of reasons why reengineering exercises fail and it’s not the purpose of this blog post to evaluate all possible
Stream of Consciousness
A quick post on a very interesting article I recently read by the hand of Mark Cuban. It compares Wall Street traders to hackers. You can find the link by clicking on this blog post title. I found it quite interesting to learn that any regulatory measure runs way behind.
Stream of Consciousness
How often have you uttered ‘I can do it better’ and taken back a responsibility you delegated because you felt it was not appropriately executed? How often have you had the feeling that those reporting to you failed you because they did not ‘adequately’ execute a task? If ‘quite often’
Stream of Consciousness
A short post, but one I started thinking about when I was reading an article on the new HTC Droid and its 440 PPI display. Reading the article, I suddenly became aware that the retina display was the first time I am aware of Apple tried to differentiate itself on