Is Ethics About Where to Draw the Line?

Adhering to standards, codes of conducts, and even strategies are a daily struggle that organizations and individuals have to deal with and work through.  The most important aspect to all of this is understanding that one’s resolve can and will get tested on a...

Innovation & Invention

A few days ago the NPR program Talk of the Nation Science Friday ran a story of a group of high school students who invented a new wheel chair.  The student inventors came up with a revolutionary approach in dealing with problems associated with modern day wheel...

The Enemies of Project Management

Linda Holmes, a blogger who writes about pop culture, recently wrote an article that discussed the issue of being inundated with information.  She discusses how we are better off determining what to choose to read rather than being irritated by what we can not digest....

Beyond Desperation on Projects

We’ve all come across certain stories in the news that cause us to pause and wonder what in the world someone was thinking. Whether it is a story about road rage gone bad, a passenger on a plane punching someone else, or even a politician acting improperly, the...

Overcoming Frustration

We’ve all been faced with certain bureaucratic processes that not only are frustrating but are ones that can jeopardize the success of our organizations and projects.   I was relating to a colleague today the challenges I had experienced dealing with a specific...