Category Archives: Reflection

Considering My Online Multiple Personality Disorder

Lately my social media activity has slowed to almost nil. I’ve been absent from this blog, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. I am paralyzed because no matter what I think of to say it seems unfocused or unimportant. I don’t know who I am anymore. And this makes me quite uncomfortable. I help businesses create and use [...]

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Job Blocked?

Projects come and go in random and fortuitous ways. At my most destitute all kinds of opportunities present themselves. And they are all worth pursuing. By my estimation, forty percent lead nowhere, sixty percent lead to work, and of that, twenty percent lead to paying work. Of twenty percent, ten percent result in completed jobs either over [...]

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Responding to A Request

My son is in Kindergarten. At his first three-way conference his teacher said he was doing great. Except for one thing. Sometimes he has trouble following instructions, i.e. he’s either selectively hearing or he’s distracted by all of the exciting and wondrous things his five-year-old self is discovering. She recommended that when he’s not listening [...]

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9 Ways Starting A Business Has Transformed Me

1.) I get up earlier Back when I was punching the clock for the man, I had a serious case of insomnia. I would roll around for hours worrying about work and the snooze button constantly betrayed me. It hurt to leave the peace of a warm slumber and face the day. Now, I get up [...]

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Opportunity Knocks Louder in 2010?

A colleague passed on the article Donna A. Reed wrote for CM Crossroads, 2010 Trends in Project Management. Some of the trends like ” Enterprises continue to look for Efficiencies in Process & Technology”, “Agile and Lean Processes are overtaking Waterfall” and ” Social Media will become a Norm” are predictable. There are three, [...]

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