Rules For Success

Incivility in the workplace is only getting worse. The only client I quit was because of incivility. I left the project in perfect shape. Here are a few notes from the book – Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace In the Civility in America 2016 survey, almost all respondents—95 percent—believed we have a civility problem. It wasn’t the hours spent at work or other factors like workload, decision authority, or discretion...

                  Hey, it’s brutal out there. Work has become a 24/7 affair, emails are drowning us, restructuring with layoffs is common and companies are buying back their own stock instead of investing. Same thing goes for Projects. There are many factors why projects fail, here are a few fundamental reasons. The consulting firm sold the client an overly complex solution. Always best to...

Here I go again on my own Goin’ down the only road I’ve ever known Like a drifter I was born to walk alone An’ I’ve made up my mind, I ain’t wasting no more time  – Whitesnake       I am a Project Manager. I am also a Project Manager ready for another contract! Know of one? I didn’t dream of becoming a Project Manager when I was in high school. Neither was I like Tiger Woods whose...

Find awe in your life After my short time at IBM I listed the biggest Pros and Cons of working there and I think money was number 5 on the list. Now, I worked hard to get that job and I called IBM partners in the Montreal area and asked them out for coffee, until I eventually landed a position at Big Blue. Teaching clients about the cognitive computing power of the super computer Watson, taking digital technology courses and other...

  “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life”. – Steve Jobs Career success is such an overused term because too many people magnify one factor...

Critical Thinking – “purposeful, self-regulatory judgment which results in interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and inference, as well as explanation of the evidential, conceptual, methodological, or contextual considerations upon which that judgment is based”          -Wikipedia Make your robot vacuum clean your floor… or only one specific spot on the floor Help you to pair your meal with the right wine Turn...