After a year-long hiatus from blogging, I’m back. And, what better day to start again than on 1-11-11? Last year was a bit like a rollercoaster ride for me with some exciting highs and some frightening lows. In 2010, my beloved father passed away and several good friends were diagnosed with life-threatening illnesses. Dark days, [...]
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In the past couple of weeks I’ve been reminded of how quickly things can change and not always for the better. Relationships that we thought were solid are now crumbling. Loved ones who were happy, healthy and vigorous are now sick and dying. Jobs that we thought were stable and recession-proof are suddenly gone. Homes [...]
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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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I’ve been thinking about change and transition a lot this past week or two. I found several quotes about change that I’d like to share with you. “People only change when the need for change becomes self evident.” ~ Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s “There’s only one corner of the universe you can [...]
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