Fast Start conversation: Most projects fail. Well, greater than 50% do. So, If the majority fail, why do they fail? They are …
Fast Start — Queen of the Net interview and State of Internet
Mary Meeker, is both smart and fascinating, called the Queen of the Net, as in Internet, this Wired interview highlights some of what makes her both smart and fascinating.
Also included is Ms. Meeker’s Internet Trends presentation at the D10 Conference when she was with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Fast Start — Is HR the new IT?
Fast Start conversation: Policies, procedures, forms, transactions, compliance and administrative oversight. Sound like your human resources (HR) department? Many of those …
Fast Start — CFOs’ top five priorities
Fast Start conversation: A Chief Financial Officer’s life is always top-line growth and bottom-line results. You may be forgiven if that …
Fast Start — What it takes to build a team
Fast Start conversation: When is a team not a team? When they are professional collection that ignore broader company issues for myopic turf …
Fast Start — Flummoxed by failure?
Fast Start conversation: Ah, failure. Happens to all of us; the reason pencils come with erasures. Intelligent people fail. Though there …
Fast Start — Working moms not satisfied with career
Fast Start conversation: 60% of working mothers say their career produces more life stress than motherhood as motherhood takes a back seat …
Fast Start — How to beat the odds judging risk
Fast Start conversation: People overestimate their ability to judge risk. Both the upside potential as well as the downside loss. Incomplete …
Fast Start — What publishing learned from music piracy
Fast Start conversation: A 3-year decline in sales from $14.5 billion to $2 billion found the music industry band together to …
Fast Start — Why your boss really is an ape
Fast Start conversation: Frustrating. You write your boss and wait for a response, and wait, and finally, get a short, perhaps …
Fast Start — Gartner report lends disturbing CIO view on social media
Fast Start conversation: While doing research on my Change Management is Dead blog series I came across a Gartner 2012 CIO Agenda …
Fast Start — Letter to a young project manager
Fast start conversation: There is a range possible between project management functional and technical competency. As a profession, what a project …
Fast Start — Digital differences and internet adoption
Fast Start conversation: One in five American adults do not use the Internet. Half of the American 20% who do not …
Fast Start — Bio as Bible: Managers Imitate Steve Jobs
Fast Start conversation: We’ve barely recovered from a decade of Jack Welch, cult of personality, CEO worship. Steve Jobs’ unfortunate death …
Fast Start — Is your organization design ready?
Fast start conversation: What does it mean for an organization to be design ready? What do you need to know to …
Fast Start — The State of Social Media Marketing annual report
Fast start conversation: Wherever you land on the social media spectrum, social media is too powerful to keep your head down and …
Fast Start — Stores smarten up amid spam flood
Fast start conversation: Last year the nation’s top, 100, e-commerce retailers sent 177 emails to every email customer they had; the …
Fast Start — 4 steps to set after-hours work expectations
Fast Start conversation: When leaders fail to clarify their preference to stay connected with their technology their employees guess expectation for responsiveness …