Well, things have been crazy as I’ve been learning the ropes for my new roles: Principal & Co-Founder of The Indigo Heron Group, Inc. and Managing Editor of Social Computing Magazine. Lots to learn and lots to do, much of which has taken it’s toll on my blogging efforts. I’m working on some new time [ Read More ]
One of the questions I am most frequently asked is, “What do I need to do to make a career change into project management?” That question sometimes comes from people in similar or related fields, like IT Management, or from fields you might not normally expect, like teaching. Most often, though, this question is posed [ Read More ]
WordPress’ database isn’t big enough for me to list off everything I’ve learned from John over the years: about business, about change, about leadership, about being a workaholic, about managing clients, about corporate politics, etc. You name a topic, and I can probably find at least a handful of lessons I learned from him. I [ Read More ]
A pet peeve has developed over the past couple of months, settling into life here in Austin and looking for a new job: employers who do not keep their job postings current. After a few weeks of consistent, aggressive online job hunting, it is pretty easy to spot the new job postings versus the old [ Read More ]
This week a dear friend and mentor commented to me that he had become “a poster-child for social networking fatigue” and that was why, while catching up by phone, he was giving me the last six months worth of updates on his life, many of which were pretty dramatic and a little surprising. I had [ Read More ]
There is something amusingly ironic about tech industry networking events: a group of people who are part of a subculture that is notorious for challenged people skills all in a room guzzling alcohol and trying to make small talk. I’ve been to too many to count — in the Bay Area, in New York, and [ Read More ]
I recently went to Orlando to spend four days at ProjectWorld and the World Congress of Business Analysts Flagship. While taking a trip half-way across the country while in the midst of a job hunt is not necessarily the world’s most prudent idea, I had agreed to speak at the conference last summer when the [ Read More ]