http://www.pm4girls.elizabeth-harrin.com/2007/06/meeting-room-c/ Project Management musings for one and all Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.pm4girls.elizabeth-harrin.com/2007/06/meeting-room-c/comment-page-1/#comment-50667 Work, in Plain English » Blog Archive » Getting Your Hands on Wisdom Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:57:19 +0000 http://www.pm4girls.elizabeth-harrin.com/?p=161#comment-50667 [...] Elizabeth posted once about a “Meeting room C” (quoting her twice!) – a cafe outside the office. While it’s important to keep in mind that public places require discretion, the bottom line is that this sort of atmosphere allows us to relax and bounce ideas and impressions off colleagues, and across departments. In settings like that, formal “lessons learned” have a chance to become internalized, to become wisdom, and to give rise to positive professional relationships. Those relationships become vast and pertinent assets that cannot be matched by anything written. [...] [...] Elizabeth posted once about a “Meeting room C” (quoting her twice!) – a cafe outside the office. While it’s important to keep in mind that public places require discretion, the bottom line is that this sort of atmosphere allows us to relax and bounce ideas and impressions off colleagues, and across departments. In settings like that, formal “lessons learned” have a chance to become internalized, to become wisdom, and to give rise to positive professional relationships. Those relationships become vast and pertinent assets that cannot be matched by anything written. [...]

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