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Conviction of Action

I was browsing the literary and grammatical gifts at the Virginia Shop of the Library of Virginia recently, chuckling to myself…

consistency, conviction, Emerson, quotes

Fashionable Management

360-Degree Feedback. Lean Management. Management by Walking Around. Organizational Learning. Reengineering. Six Sigma. Total Quality Management. One business best seller…

Management, Organizations, Recently Read

Personality Types and Librarians (Part 2)

Using the 1994 Scherdin study of 1,600 librarians and MBTI®, and a national representative sample of MBTI® types from 1998, we can…

decision-making, librarians, MBTI

Personality Types and Librarians (Part 1)

Millions of people have taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®) instrument in the hopes of understanding themselves better. The theory…

decision-making, MBTI
Motella the Dog, Contemplating Winter

Pandemic Proofing Your Project

With flu season in full swing, your mind might be on your workplace plan for keeping operations afloat even with…

Information Technology, Project Management, Web Projects
Dead Tree

Project Management is Dead

A podcast by E-Commerce Times’ Dana Gardner about technology projects got my attention. In it, Ron Schmelzer, of the advisory and…

Information Technology, Project Management, Recently Read

Organizational Culture and Project Management

  Organizational culture: “A pattern of shared basic assumptions that the group learned as it solved its problems of external…

Communication & Culture, Project Management
Looking up

Learning from Action Learning

I became aware of action learning as a participant in an executive leadership program. Just this year as I returned to…

Action Learning, Project Management, Web Projects

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