I am much more of a fox than a hedgehog. No, I don’t blog every day, but it’s fair to say that I’m pretty prolific. On this site, you’ll find a boatload of posts on the future of work, higher education, technology, platforms, communication, collaboration, analytics, and other topics. They generally fall into the following buckets: insights, provocations, musings, predictions, and rants. I write more about big ideas than listicles and snackable content. I inject humor often into my posts and freakin’ despise jargon. Click here to see an interactive word cloud and treemap of my posts’ tags.
In Defense of Consultants: A Punch-Out Based Rant
Clients who routinely ignore consultants’ advice must forfeit the right to blame said consultants forever.
The Chopping Block: Cutting Features From an IT Project
Consider dropping non-essential features for the good of the project and the organization.
Free by Chris Anderson
A review of Anderson’s follow up to The Long Tail.
Project Management Lessons From Rush
What you can learn about project management from the world’s greatest band.
Simon 2.0: My New Window to the World
Welcome to the new site.
Change, Vested Interests, and Creative Destruction
My take on Postman’s classic.
Management Lessons From In-N-Out Burger
An excellent book about a cult company.
Looking for Endorsements for My Next Book
I’m in full media-whore mode.
Blog Bout I: Risk vs. Monopoly
Risk or Monopoly: Which is the better IT-project metaphor?
Five Parallels Between Golf and IT Projects
Believe it or not, they are pretty similar.
Planet Google by Randall Stross
Stross is also not afraid to call a spade a spade.
Kranzberg’s Six Laws of Technology
Reflecting on the new book.
Recommended Reading: Week of 9/27/09
A few thoughts on the tech world.
Always Be Closing
Many salespeople lamentably still adhere to an “Always Be Closing” mentality.
Google and Failure-Tolerant Cultures
Agile software development methodologies should decrease project failure rates.