The smile is right up there with Rule Number 8, the firm handshake. A nice smile makes for a good first impression. It implies confidence; a positive attitude and openness . . . someone who is approachable, someone you would like to know and be around. For success you want people to see this inRead… Read more »
Dean Peter W. Martin of Cornell University Law School has posted Abandoning Law Reports for Official Digital Case Law (2011), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In 2009, Arkansas ended publication of the Arkansas Reports. Since 1837 this series of volumes, joined in the late twentieth century by the Arkansas Appellate Reports covering the state’sRead… Read more »
Project management is one of those things that seems very complex when you’re starting out. But after you been doing it for a while, it really turns out to be a good dose of common sense with some science and discipline added in. I think many project managers tend to focus on tools and techniquesRead… Read more »
NELIC 2011: The New and Emerging Legal Infrastructures Conference, will be held 15 April 2011, at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Boalt Hall, in Berkeley, California, USA. According to the announcement, invited speakers will address the following topics: “Quantitative Legal Prediction“: such as applying “machine learning” and “natural language processing” to developRead… Read more »
This article is written in the wake of a potential Government Shut down on March 4th, and to be read by those who receive a paycheck every two weeks from your job. For those who own their own business, and do not receive a steady paycheck, and are committed to improving our economy, want toRead… Read more »
Okay, it’s not really dirty, or little for that matter. And it’s really not secret. But many of the leaders and managers I work with have forgotten it or have never heard of it. It’s the fast-cheap-good reality of decision making. You are always bound by the “pick two” rule. Because there is no suchRead… Read more »
Yesterday a friend, being facetious, suggested one of our rules should be to have rules. Although it’s wasn’t what I had planned, Kathleen is very much on track. Do you have “rules” in which you live by and are known for? What are your CORE VALUES? Think along the lines of Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly,Read… Read more »
Harold Holzer, an expert on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era, is the senior vice president for external affairs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has authored, co-authored and edited 36 books and published hundreds of articles. Holzer also serves as chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation. WhatRead… Read more »
An interesting article by John Foley in Information Week on Feb 15 … what do you think? Is this doable? The CEOs of IBM, Dell, and other tech companies say the U.S. government can reap huge savings from IT-driven initiatives, but their ambitious plan has virtually no chance of success. By John Foley, InformationWeek FebruaryRead… Read more »
I’m honored to be invited to do an interview every now and then, and a new one just came out. I’m “the guy who helps new project managers” so the questions and answers in these interviews are geared towards those topics. I realized this morning that I’ve never put a list of these together inRead… Read more »