It's all for nothing if you don't have freedom from your schedule sometimes. [The 50-Minute Meeting](http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/silverman/2009/08/the-50minute-meeting.html) is a great idea. My method for effective meetings is to have an agenda, start on time and finish on … [Read more...]
Andrew Sullivan: Why Writers Hate Meetings
Engineers hate meetings as well. The original post is [here](http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html). The quote about breaking the day up is right on: "When you're operating on the maker's schedule, meetings are a disaster. A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by … [Read more...]
Risk Mitigation Plans
Risk is part of any endeavor. Some, like the business of innovation, have more than say building a house. Properly identifying the risks in your project is a valuable exercise. Don't consider this a defeatist attitude. Rather, it is a pragmatic approach to knowing where problems … [Read more...]
What One Management Skill Do You Want To Improve?
I have been working on an idea for a series of posts on management and wanted some feedback. If you could pick one management skill to improve, what would it be? Put another way, which MBA class would you want to take if given the opportunity? Thanks in advance for your … [Read more...]
Creative Class: Creating The Open Data Bargin
Government can learn a tremendous amount from Open Source projects. This post over at Creative Class goes a good job laying out the argument for Open Data but needs to take it one step farther. Data access is important but more important is building an Open Source government. … [Read more...]
