Archive for March, 2006

Mar 08 2006

Secrets of greatness: How I work

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FORTUNE: Secrets of greatness: How I work – Mar. 7, 2006 E-mail and voicemail; yoga and personal assistants; structure and grooving: A dozen accomplished people tell what works for them.

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Mar 07 2006

The Art of Work

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The Art of Work “It is what the sailor holding a tight course feels when the wind whips through her hair….It is what a painter feels when the colors on the canvas begin to set up a magnetic tension with each other, and a new thing, a living form, takes shape….”

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Mar 07 2006

Preparing For Act II

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Preparing For Act II How do you dodge a career crisis? I don’t know that you need to dodge it. Rough it. What I mean is that there’s a time in your life when you’re rethinking the direction you’re heading. You absolutely need to do it. People drift into a career usually by accident; we [...]

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Mar 06 2006

Evaluating Project Success, Failure — and Everything in Between

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Evaluating Project Success, Failure — and Everything in Between – Computerworld Project managers must strive to become adept at negotiating the trade-offs between process (time, cost and product) and outcome (use, learning and business value). The project charter should include negotiated success metrics, the project dashboard should enable real-time metrics, and the project retrospective should [...]

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Mar 05 2006

How to be an expert

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Creating Passionate Users: How to be an expert “For the superior performer the goal isn’t just repeating the same thing again and again but achieving higher levels of control over every aspect of their performance. That’s why they don’t find practice boring. Each practice session they are working on doing something better than they did [...]

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Mar 01 2006

Speaking tips

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mezzoblue  Â§  Speaking? Tips. Know your material. But plan to make mistakes anyway. If you talk through a bunch of slides, oh well. Make them available later, and it’s no big deal. If you have to back up and provide extra context that you missed earlier, go right ahead. You can even tell people that’s [...]

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