I was recently asked if it is possible to keep everyone around you--your team, your family, your friends--happy all the time. The obvious short answer is "No". You cannot make or keep everyone happy all the time. But my reason for the answer may not be as obvious. The problem is not keeping everyone happy or... Continue Reading →
One of the Top Ways to Improve Your Focus
One of my favorite quotes this year is from Dr. Howard Hendricks, an author, speaker and highly influential professor at Dallas Theological Seminary: "If anything has kept me on track all these years, it is being skewed to this principle of center focus. There are many things that I can do, but I have to narrow it... Continue Reading →
“I will not let quality get in the way of releasing on time!”
Yep, those words were really said. Out loud. On purpose. By a manager. To his team. Under stress. A participant in this week's project management workshop shared the story. I don't know the manager but my guess is he's probably a reasonable, rational, and decent person. Yet under stress, when we're in the heat of... Continue Reading →
