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Monthly Archives: January 2011
Communicating Your Value and Narcissism–Where’s the line between them?
When the hockey team wins the Stanley Cup and parades down main street shouting “We’re Number One!”, no one would call that narcissism. They are actually number one, it’s a fact. However when the starter goalie for the team mid … Continue reading
Facilitating the “Angry Mob” meeting Part 3
In my blog post Facilitating the “Angry Mob” meeting – Part 1 , I talked about the core things the facilitator needs to do to prevent problems in an “Angry Mob” meeting. Now we need to talk about what to … Continue reading
The new and improved – Mr. Bill Gates
On a project in the US in 1996 I met a former employee of Microsoft. That in itself is not such an unusual thing, but to meet one of its first former employees is. A guy who at the infancy … Continue reading
Facilitating the “Angry Mob” meeting Part 2
In my blog post Facilitating the “Angry Mob” meeting – Part 1 , I talked about the core things the facilitator needs to do to prevent problems in an “Angry Mob” meeting. Now we need to talk about what … Continue reading
Facilitating the “Angry Mob” Meeting
Imagine for a moment, the nightmare scenario. You have been engaged to deploy a new technology for a client. The CIO unilaterally made the decision to deploy it. The technology will eliminate IT jobs and will cause 50% of … Continue reading
Posted in Consulting Excellence
Tagged angry mob, consulting excellence; facilitation skills
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Project Management – An Interview with Niccolo Machiavelli
We are here with Mr. Niccolo Machiavelli. Mr. Machiavelli is the author of the well known publication, “The Prince”. Welcome to the show Nick! NM> Thanks Ian, I am glad to be here. Nick, when you look at a project … Continue reading
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Why you can’t find it in Google–What’s Next and Why their share price will drop
Search engines like Google are fundamentally based on the presence or absence of specific words or phrases in a given object. The object (html, picture, video) is uploaded to an internet site, the search engines grabs the available data and … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
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Nailing the Presentation–10 simple rules
A recent New York Time survey result ranked the greatest fears as: Public Speaking Heights Spiders/Snakes Death Public Speaking was the number 1 fear by a large margin over the others. You can be an extrovert and still shiver at … Continue reading
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When technology goes obsolete
My friend Steve Dotto (of Dotto on Data TV fame) often says “It’s not what technology will do for you but what technology will do to you that you have to watch”. Last year I was in Seattle for a … Continue reading
Infinite Shades of Grey 