Archive for February, 2011
Thinking creatively by taking your ideas to trial
You can put your ideas to the test by putting them on trial. A very successful team building and idea vetting exercise is to literally organize a mock trail, with prosecuting and defending teams and even a jury. Not only is it fun, but it can be eye-opening: “It was one of the better things we’ve done in a long time,” says Richard D. Fain, chairman and C.E.O. of Royal Caribbean Cruises.
Trying to change the world can be dangerous
Trying to change the world (or at least the professional one)? It can be dangerous, as Julia Kirby writes in Harvard Business Review: It’s one thing to be the agent of change in an organization that realizes it needs it; it’s quite another when you’re the only one in the room convinced of that. Be [...]
Tackling the global project problem
Launching a global project presents many problems that are completely foreign to most project leaders and managers. Understanding the cultural differences, communication differences, and interpersonal relations of a global team is only the beginning. Business environment, local regulatory and compliance issues, and international laws scratch a bit deeper, but managing a global project is more complicated than most project managers anticipate.
How big is cloud computing, really?
How big is Cloud Computing? How much do we rely on it today, and how much more tomorrow? One thing is clear: With distributed computing everywhere, in our laptops, our smart phones, our tablets and iPads, everyone has one thing in common: We all want to connect to something. That something is rapidly turning out [...]
The changing face of the U.S. job market
Is the U.S. experiencing a jobless recovery, or facing something much more fundamental? Is the changing economic landscape and emerging global economy causing a structural shift in the very nature of our workforce? The influence of the global economy is undeniably bringing about changes that are both new and unanticipated. As information flows around the [...]
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