Here’s one that I haven’t run into before. A colleague scheduled a meeting with someone else in the organization to work through a problem that keeps coming up and seems to be of those problems where everyone wants someone else to do the work. The other person declined the meeting without a comment, no offer […]
Read more "Two of a Kind"I was in a meeting a few weeks ago, deadlines looming and everyone feeling the stress some. We hit a couple minute pause and one of the guys in the room (a serious type most of the time) out of nowhere mentions that he finds watching Bob Ross on TV relaxing. 8 I couldn’t have […]
Read more "Play the Bob Ross Game"2011-10-23 21:31:24
Read more "A Thought on Career Decisions"As life skills go one of the hardest is to see yourself as others do – they apply all kinds of filters and interpretations, and of course we’re often reluctant to let go of our own biases that filter our own vision. It’s easy to get hung up on the negatives or potential negatives and […]
Read more "Seeing Yourself as Others Do"Last week I emailed the Board of Directors my resignation effective December 31st of this year, ending my current term one year early. It’s a decision I’ve been thinking about since May and explaining it could well consume several posts – though I’m not sure it would be that interesting! I’m no less passionate about […]
Read more "PASS Update #66 (All Good Things)"I’m a fan of virtual teams, times when you pull together people from across many teams to form a team that is focused on a goal. Sometimes they are dedicated to the effort, a lot of times they aren’t – depends on the amount of work needed and all the other competing priorities. Time isn’t […]
Read more "Virtual/Adhoc Teams"I saw this about the iModela 3d printer, it’s priced under $1000, making it approachable if not quite cheap. 3d printing is one of those technologies that may just change the world. Lower cost of prototyping, much lower bar to small batches and customizations, it’s worth watching.
Read more "3D Printing for Under $1000"2011-10-09 19:04:12
Read more "Culture Posters"After enjoying the entirely reasonable weather in Seattle in October this year we’ll return to our more traditional time frame for the 2012 PASS Summit year on Nov 6-9, 2012, at the Convention Center in Seattle. Super early bird registration runs until Nov 15th of this year – that gets you the Summit for only […]
Read more "Next PASS Summit is Nov 6-9, 2012"I’m writing this at the Seattle airport on Friday night with a couple hours to relax before the midnight flight home. Overall its been a good week. Nothing major went wrong, met a lot of new people, got to see a lot of old friends. Some things that stand out for me: The weather was […]
Read more "2011 PASS Summit-Report #4"
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