How I rehabilitated my life of email crime

If there was a prison for e-mail crimes, I’d be serving 25-to-Life, with no chance of parole.

Having since been rehabilitated, I can now look back at my wanton life of email crime with a critical, if not somewhat embarrassed, eye. In order to keep you on the path of email righteousness, here’s some advice [...]

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Maslow's Musical Moment: What Johnny Cash's “Hurt” teaches us about potential

True confession: I am not a fan of country music.

I am very proud of the eclectic nature of my personal music collection: it includes alternative rock, world, jazz, classic rock, dance, electronica, lounge, hip-hop and even (gasp!) some rap. But, try as I might (and I have tried), I just can’t get [...]

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Project Manager Aliases and the Evian Roller Babies

Project Managers are everywhere. The thing is: sometimes the Project Manager is disguised by another title, so that they can be hard to recognize. Sometimes they go by an Alias. (Not to be confused by that awesome TV show).

This Evian Roller Babies ad was circulating the social media circles last summer and I [...]

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Maslow's Pyramid: the Video Game of Life

Usually when we’re introduced to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the purpose is to give project managers another tool with which to manipulate or control – oh, sorry – “motivate” team members. I have a completely different reason for my love affair with Maslow’s model. In order for me to lay the groundwork for upcoming posts [...]

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