I picked up Christopher M Avery and co-authors'  Teamwork Is an Individual Skill: Getting Your Work Done When Sharing Responsibility based on a recommendation that I, sadly, did not record. The book is ten years old, but it doesn't feel dated. These topics are perennially important. Or maybe these are more examples of uncommon common sense. MORE >>

You can only act strategically, day in, day out, if you know your company's strategy. Here are five things that happen when you really do know it. you know when to say 'no.'. you get better support from your colleagues--they are trying to achieve the same things. you can wing it with confidence--the strategy is your safety net. Strategic clarity MORE >>

Sameer Patel recently wrote a useful post, Marketing your Marketing , on the shallow nature of enticing people to like you on social media with coupons or other giveaways. could not agree more with his thoughts and suggest that you read his original. Then the marketing department wastes their time following up with the 700, including me. MORE >>

There are a a set of work-related trends that seem to sketch a scenario that could mean the end of of the office. recent Gallup study found that 71 percent of US workers are “not engaged” or are “actively disengaged” in their work. And the proportion of disengaged seems to be rising. Connecting The Dots. What’s Missing? The Second Place. MORE >>

Michael Krigsman has a nice summary of an academic article he found about project management, Six lessons for intelligent project management : Traditional approaches can isolate project goals from business outcomes. The solution is bringing project managers closer to those working in lines of business. Eliminate “apple polishing.”. love these. MORE >>