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October 2007

Project Shrink Links 29-10-2007

Otetsudai Networks
“With Otetsudai Networks, if you are willing to work, you sign up for the service with your skills and focus, take a GPS reading on your phone and then just hang out. If you are looking for someone for say… 3 hours to man a cash register or help wash dishes, you just send [...]

Most Important PM Task

What is the most important task of a Project Manager? (makes a great dinner discussion if you want to get rid of your guests )
Planning? No!
Control? You wished… NO!
Communication… HECK NO!
The answer is… allocation of scarce resources.
Come again?
You have limited time, your money pit is not without bottom, you have only a handful [...]

The Next-Generation Workforce and Project Management

Absolute must-read: The Next-Generation Workforce and Project Management
The workplace is changing in ways not due entirely to the introduction of new technology or new philosophies of management. The workforce itself is changing. The rise of the millennial generation brings workers who are more introspective, more connected to the world and their community, and less willing [...]

Blog Overview

Read this introduction if you are new to this blog.
This post functions as an index to key postings on my blog. Look at it as a Table Of Contents.
Some links to external sites are included, as there are so many subjects I would like to cover, but didn’t find time to write yet.
Enjoy!
History, Now [...]

Flight of the Creative Class

Work moves around. If it can be produced cheaper, more efficiently or better, it gets relocated.
Talent moves around. If one area on the globe is more exciting and thrilling than another, people relocate.
Works moves around. And people that perform the work move around. Not necessarily dependent of each other.
Regional population changes rapidly. Asia gets a [...]

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