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Stop Shipping

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Some of you have noticed that I’m no longer on the sidebar of this blog — but I haven’t gone away. I’ll be back from time to time as a guest author, and often as a reader. Why the change? Well, I followed my own advice, offered here: Stop shipping. Read more »

Four Secrets of the Super Productive

I actually don’t know if I’d be considered super-productive. But I do get asked a bit how I “manage to do it all”. I certainly don’t do it all, and I have my days where I’m woefully behind or buried or overwhelmed. What I DO do, however, is get the Read more »

8 Ways to Manage Up for Social Media Success

If you’re helping to integrate social media into your business or that of your clients, it’s not just your team you have to convince. In fact, the hardest part is managing UP, and maintaining lines of communication and delivering on expectations clearly and predictably. Managing up is as much a Read more »

7 Steps to Executing a Pilot Project

Have you read Switch by Chip and Dan Heath yet? If you haven’t, go over here and order it. (Amazon affiliate link) I’ll hang out. Good? Okay. One of the concepts they talk about that I utterly and completely believe in is the idea of having a “learning phase” for Read more »

Project Management and the Dynamite Philosophy

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I’ve lost count of how many times people ask me how I stay organized and manage projects and tasks. For some reason, getting and staying organized seems to be a tough thing for a lot of people, so I promised I’d share some of what I do and what I’ve Read more »

Conviction Matters

When you’re about to build or launch a project, doing so with conviction matters an awful lot. When you’re presenting your plan to your boss, or the team, or the class, own it. Do your homework, do the grunt work of putting it together, anticipate some questions and prepare answers. Read more »