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Status Reports
I like a good status report. It may contain a few sentences or a page full of data and gauges, but done well it quickly and crisply tells the story of where we’re at on a project or task – … Continue reading
Why Isn’t Everyone Accountable? A Work Conundrum
A pattern I’ve seen over and over again at many different jobs is that some people are not held accountable for mistakes, inaction, or even lack of participation, and others seem to be held hyper-accountable. Why is that? Why would … Continue reading
Expectations-The Big Disconnect
One of the things I’ve learned from running events is to set expectations. If you’re going to provide coffee don’t run out of coffee – they expect it to be there. If you’re not going to provide coffee, that’s ok, … Continue reading
Three Mistakes Managers Make
I suppose there is an almost limitless number of mistakes that managers can do and do make, it’s the nature of any work by and about people. My list today is from the perspective of someone that often gets to … Continue reading
Managing By Walking Around
For a long time a core piece of my ‘style’ has been to wander the halls a couple times a day to see what is going on. It’s been effective as a consultant and as a DBA, I get a … Continue reading
Distance Decreases Stress
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Identify Risk Early
One of the mistakes I see a lot is teams failing to identify risks early and failing to leave time to deal with the unexpected things that come up. Imagine a project that seems to have work something like this: … Continue reading
Conflict Resolution
More than once I’ve run into situations where I’m working with two people/groups that don’t get along. Especially as a manager or consultant its easy to wind up between two factions that can’t get along for reasons often lost to … Continue reading
PASS Summit Keynotes Will Be Streamed Live
For those of you aren’t able to travel to Seattle for the PASS Summit this year, here’s a chance to join in some of the fun each day by watching the keynotes right along with us. Here’s the list: Day … Continue reading
Follow Up On My Keynote Survey
Here are the results of the survey, 75% in favor of a non-technical keynote, with a less than stellar sampling of 32 votes! Thought twtpoll worked pretty well, haven’t compared to others, but very easy to use and I like … Continue reading
