I’ve written about this before, but as I look back on my career over the last decade, I’ve had remarkably few good bosses. In most cases, if I was lucky, I had a boss that I liked as a person. But only twice have I had truly good bosses. The first was JP. I adore [ Read More ]
Watching all of my co-workers drag themselves into work this morning (green, exhausted and in pain), after a late night of partying (to say good-bye to two employees who left this week for other opportunities), has got me thinking again… Since arriving at my current job, I have found myself in a new and rather [ Read More ]
I realize that I am not the world’s most patient person. This is a source of endless frustration with my fiance: we both get frustrated with each other because I think that he should or does know/understand something that he doesn’t, and when it becomes clear that he doesn’t, I have to decide if that [ Read More ]
I find it amazing that the times when I typically realize I am having the best days are the days when I am peddle-to-the-metal, no-holds-barred, hair-on-fire busy as hell. Why is that? Today was spectacular… and I’m not entirely sure I can adequately quantify precisely why. I think the bottom line was that I had [ Read More ]
Project Managers tend to be very process oriented. As a group, we like things standardized, uniform and easily repeatable. That is why I tend to find it amusing that every single job I’ve ever had goes through the process of defining and re-defining their own project delivery process every year or two. As an organization [ Read More ]