Author Archives: Ian

The new and improved – Mr. Bill Gates

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Ian

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 →

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Facilitating the “Angry Mob” meeting Part 2

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Ian

  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 →

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Facilitating the “Angry Mob” Meeting

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Ian

  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 →

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Poll–What’s the most important thing to you as a consultant

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Ian
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Project Management – An Interview with Niccolo Machiavelli

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Ian

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

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Ian

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 →

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Nailing the Presentation–10 simple rules

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Ian

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

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Ian

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 →

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Dangers of Living in the Past

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Ian

When the New Year begins, it starts with 18th century traditions like Auld Lang Syne, reflections of the year past, it’s challenges, accomplishments and it’s triumphs and then day 1 of the year begins with traditions not to be remembered … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas, Merry X-mas or Happy Holidays for the Consultant

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Ian

Christmas for many still retains the traditions of yesterday with choirs, hymns and nativity scenes. Yet the workplace is inured with insincere attempts at political correctness to try to not offend others  who share the space but not the practice. … Continue reading →

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