Today is the first official day of summer and I have procrastinated to the point that now I’m planning to do summer cleaning instead of spring cleaning. In addition to clearing out some physical clutter, I need to do a bit of mental housekeeping. Out with the old and in with the new! If you [...]
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In the past month, I’ve heard about two former computer programmers who left the corporate life behind to live out their dreams as song writer/musicians. Having worked with a lot of computer programmers and systems engineers over the years, I know that many of them are talented musicians. And, of that group, I bet more [...]
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Have you ever wondered how Friday the 13th got such as bad reputation? I did, so I did some research and found some interesting tidbits at howstuffworks.com. The first thing I learned is that there is a name for the fear of Friday the 13th. And, it’s quite a mouthful – paraskevidekatriaphobia. This phobia packs [...]
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I’ve seen statistics that anywhere from 60 to 90 percent of all projects fail to accomplish their intended objectives. Why do so many projects fail? I worked as a project manager for many years and two commonalities in all projects are change and people. Perhaps we are upgrading our technology, reorganizing or consolidating business units, [...]
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For the past 6 months I’ve been planning to start sending out a monthly newsletter. I’ve done my research and know what to do, but I haven’t done anything beyond that. I have lots of reasons (AKA excuses) for why I haven’t done anything yet, but none of them outweigh the reasons for going forward [...]
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