Getting Project Managers Started Young
What do you think? Too young to learn about managing projects?Well, maybe.But on the other end of the spectrum, for sure you’re never too old.What are you waiting for? Let the children show you the way...
View ArticleWhy Traditional Project Management Doesn’t Work for Professionals – Reason #487
I renewed my membership in PMI today, the Project Management Institute. Among the questions I was asked, on the way to supplying my $129, was, How did you first learn about PMI?Look at the list of...
View ArticleWhat Can “the Law Business” Learn From Radio Shack?
I passed a nearly-gone Radio Shack outlet last night. Everything was 70%-90% off. An inveterate tinkerer and early adopter, I still couldn’t find anything I wanted, let alone something I needed.But it...
View ArticleSmallLaw Pick of the Week
My March column for SLAW, the online Canadian Journal of law practice, won the SmallLaw Pick of the Week last week.The article, The Third Tool: The Off Switch, is a brief intro to one of the...
View ArticleA Crucial Interview Question
I was talking with a client yesterday about interview questions, discussing ones that elicited useful information. We got to speaking about questions from the candidate, and I said there was one...
View ArticleOT: Brilliant Way to Increase Tips
This is just brilliant.I’m not sure it has any application to Legal Project Management, or the business of law.I’m not even trying to make a statement on the concept of tipping.(Might I wonder, though,...
View ArticleWorthwhile Article on Paying Your Best Performers “Unfairly”
Business Insider has a very nice article on Google’s policy of paying people “unfairly.”By “unfairly,” Google means that different people receive different pay and/or incentives for the same position...
View ArticleRingo and Project Management
Recently, Ringo Starr was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.There’s been discussion among music aficionados of a certain age as to whether be belongs there as an individual. After all,...
View ArticleThe Fourth Tool: The Budget
My regular column for SLAW, the Canadian online practice-of-law journal, is now available. It focuses on budgets, the fourth of my five tools for legal professionals.Of course, you could buy the book...
View ArticleOutstanding Project Management Behavior, Gator Division
What do you do if you’re a tour-boat operator in Florida and one of your guests, spying an alligator, jumps overboard to swim towards it?Why would a tourist do that? Well, according to this...
View ArticleMy Bimonthly Canadian Law Magazine Column Is Available
My column in Slaw this month is titled The Fifth Tool: Assigning Tasks.Learn a simple secret to getting task assignments right the first time – the right results at the right cost. (Or at least the...
View ArticleSequels, for Me and Willie the Shake
The sequel to my bestselling Legal Project Management is here.Okay, in the book biz, they call ’em second editions, but still. The ABA is releasing Legal Project Management, Second Edition. New words!...
View ArticleAbout My New Book
As noted offhandedly yesterday, my new book is out.It’s like the first book, only better.In a way, it is the first book, Legal Project Management, the book that started the (mini) revolution. But it’s...
View ArticleOn Living While Dying: A Beautiful Article by Oliver Sachs
I rarely write on Saturdays, but this was too beautiful not to share: Oliver Sachs in the NY Times.
View ArticleWhen the Project Whispers, “Get Out”
Many years ago, a film (The Amityville Horror) featured a house that whispered to a visiting priest, “Get out.” (If you scroll down a bit, you can see the “get out” bit with Rod Steiger as the...
View Article“Hold Off the Earth Awhile”
I buried a dear friend yesterday.He’d fought an insidious brain tumor for three years, or about thirty-three months more than his doctors had allotted at first diagnosis. He fought the good fight. But...
View ArticleNew: Now You Can Subscribe by EMail
I know the world is trending away from email. Sometimes I’m in front, sometimes I’m behind, and sometimes I just do it my own way.It’s now possible to subscribe to these articles by email. Click the...
View ArticleLPM in Australia and New Zealand
I am making a rare trip “down under” in November: in New Zealand the first part of the week of November 16, flying to Australia (Melbourne / Sydney / Brisbane) the end of that week through the week of...
View ArticleSafety Tip of the Day
When you travel with your portable USB devices – smartphone, tablet, etc. – they tend to run out of power at the end of the day. How cool is it, then, that so many airports, coffee shops, and such now...
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