Normally when I read books to review I take notes as I go.  But I have read The Power of Slow a couple of times, and I don’t have any notes on it.  I think I just got sucked in to the book, and read it fast, which was probably not the point.
Christine Louise Hohlbaum [...]

Project management is 90% communication, so if you need a little push to frame your message in the best possible way for the audience, Mark Magnacca’s book So What?: How to Communicate What Really Matters to Your Audience could be the one to help you keep your New Year’s resolutions.
I have a copy to give [...]

“Do you have any advent calendars?” I asked the shop assistant.
She grunted and pointed to a display in the window.  They were ordinary 2010 wall calendars.
“They’re not really what I was after,” I said.
She grunted again and pointed to a pile of diaries.
“Not really advent calendars,” I said, more to myself than to her – [...]

And the first name out of the hat was Tony from Essex, UK.
Congratulations:  a copy of Sharm Manwani’s book IT-Enabled Business Change is on its way.
If you want to find out more about this book you can read the review here.  And if you are in London today and can get to the [...]

What can you learn from just 6 words?  According to Lonnie Pacelli, President of Leading on the Edge International quite a lot.  He was inspired by this anecdote:
“Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway was challenged by some friends to write a story in six words.  Hemingway responded to the challenge with the following story:  For [...]

What a great title for a book about social media marketing.  No Starch Press has a habit of turning out great books – I’ve recently reviewed Growing Software: Proven Strategies for Managing Software Engineers: Big Strategies for Managing Small Software Companies for The Computer Journal and that was also a fabulously produced, attractive and interesting [...]

“Change happens in organisations,” writes Sharm Manwani.  “Sometimes you have a choice – to be in the driving seat, ride as a passenger or not to get onto the bus.  At other times the choice is made for you.”
IT-Enabled Business Change is a book about – surprise! – change in organisations.  But it’s a project [...]

Not being a PMP I wasn’t sure what this book would offer. The introduction says this book is not a PMP study guide, so what was it?  However, from the first few pages it was clear that it was a hands-on guide to the skills you need to put everything you learned for the PMP [...]

Let me guess: you’re adopting Peter Taylor’s ‘lazy’ project management principles and not doing anything until you really have to.

Or you have done a forward pass and a backward pass through your tasks for this month using critical path method, and having calculated the float for each you realised that you could leave this until [...]

I had a huge response to my book review of The Lazy Project Manager, so I have a copy signed by Peter Taylor himself to giveaway.
Send me a message saying ‘I’m so lazy’ by 23 October and I will put your name in the hat to win this great book.
Of course, if you’re not successful [...]