Currently I am tracking 103 blogs related to "Project Management". Last month I found the following postings highly remarkable and interesting…

Is it Time to Panic?

"As you look at your own firm and your own situation, it is not a time to take foolish risks. Frankly, it’s never a time to do that, so nothing has changed. It is a time to adopt a philosophy that seeks to find opportunity in chaos. It is a time to carefully evaluate your strategies and check your assumptions. It is also a time to consider making some hard calls on your future. Working for a firm in the post 9/11 world where the board and leadership had the courage to invest in reinventing the firm’s core offerings at a time when our competitors were scaling back R+D efforts, was a brilliant learning lesson. "

Foolish Productivity: The Hobgoblin of Creative Minds
What Does Creativity Create?
Was This My Idea, or Am I Being Brainwashed?
Is the Downside of Telecommuting the Specter of Outsourcing?
Financial resilience - Taleb and Mandelbrot reflect on crisis
Are You a Socially Intelligent Leader?
Top 100 Blogs for Development Managers (Q3 2008) Yay! Nr 57! Yoohoo!
Effective Status Reports
What are the right conditions for agile adoption?

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"Planning and implementing organizational systems and practices to manage people so that the potential advantages of diversity are maximized while its potential disadvantages are minimized" (Cultural Diversity in Organization by Taylor H. Cox)

Our communities are like rainbows, every color is unique, every color is pretty when used right but it can appear quite ugly when misused. A diverse, multicultural work environment is the same; it needs to be handled well to be effective just as the rainbow looks pretty in the order it is, but if you put colors together without considering their individuality or their role in the whole, the end product would be signify chaos instead of perfect beauty.

Here are 23 tips for working in a multicultural team:

1. Flexibility is the key to working in a multicultural environment; the work environment always demands flexibility on your part, but in a multicultural environment the adaptation becomes all the more important. The flexibility that is so important in dealing with anything that does not confirm to our own beliefs ensures your coworkers feel you are not judging them by religion or race, in a work environment, and as humans, their personal qualities and the value of their work matters, never the color of their skin.
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In my series "Proud Postings" I ask several other bloggers in the Project Management arena "What are the 3 postings you are most proud of?" This time three great postings from Paul Ritchie. He writes fabulous Project Management stuff on his blog Crossderry.

Photography by Francois Schnell.

First about Paul and Crossderry…

"I lead global project management operations at SAP. Looking back, I guess in one way or another I’ve been involved in strategy and initiative leadership for just under twenty years. Check out my LinkedIn bio for more information.
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Why should people want to work on your project?

You know about globalization, you know this makes employees competing with people from all over the world. Have you considered The Other Consequence? That you have to compete with other GLOBAL companies and Project Managers to get good people to staff your projects?

If developers, testers and other talented individuals can work for any project all over the world, why should they work for you?

Let me start with the answer:
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If your are into software project management, you are into marketing. If you are planning to keep on working on software projects in the years to come, you better get darn good at it.

It seems to be a dirty word among technical people: “marketing”. But it’s not about selling your soul to the devil. It’s not about tricking people into buying stuff they don’t want.

Being a software project manager you need to negotiate win-win conditions between the stakeholders. This not only means listening to both parties, but this also means putting certain aspects in the spot light, promote a certain point of view to close the gap between stakeholders. You are marketing point of views to enable progress in your project:
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