by Glyn | Feb 27, 2012 | Blog
Risks, Actions, Incidents, and Decisions (RAID) Registers are ubiquitous in project management. No surprise then that I have my own take on the device. Being one to make do with what I have available, instead of pining for tools, applications, and systems that I...
by Glyn | Feb 26, 2012 | Blog
If you’re interested in Evidence-Based Management (EBM), check out this site, by two of my favourite authors, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Bob Sutton. Here’s a taste of their of their Five Principles of EBM: Face the hard facts, and build a culture in which people...
by Glyn | Feb 26, 2012 | Blog
I can’t recall how I discovered TED.com, but it was probably due to both an abundance of spare time and a lack of focus which afforded me the luxury to follow seemingly random links. From TED.com: “TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out...
by Glyn | Feb 24, 2012 | Blog
Have you ever been impressed by a critical evaluation of a topic or a person? How about a negative critical evaluation? I have, and I was so affected. And I have also been with people who are universally critical; they were hard work, to the point where it was almost...
by Glyn | Feb 24, 2012 | Blog
What are we to make of organisational stories and myths? It seems as though yarns, gossip, stories, and myths have universal appeal, but should we take them at face value as a representation of a truth, reality, or facts of an event? People such as Yiannis Gabriel...
by Glyn | Feb 23, 2012 | Blog
I had in the recent past found many references to Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) (Wikipedia), most notably his view that “everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to...
