A great film can do much more than just provide a couple of hours of entertainment. The best movies also make you think. Reflecting on the journey to get my PMP certification, I realized many classic films provide valuable project management lessons from the mistakes their characters make. Here are five of my favorites: Star…
Co-workers are like family you didn’t choose and have no control over. Yet you still have to deal with these people day after potentially soul-crushing day. Odds are that most folks in your office are okay to be around for eight hours at a time. If you’re lucky, a few may even be tolerable enough…
The Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI) is no doubt one of the most difficult professional accreditations to achieve. Studying for the four-hour 200 question test gave me flashbacks to my high school days. Trying to cram as much knowledge into my skull as possible to get a good score…
Meetings. At best they are a necessary evil. At worst they are a soul-crushing waste of your time. The goal of any successful meeting should be to stay on topic and get out as fast as possible. Sadly, most don’t turn out that way, often because there is at least one person in attendance who…
One more blog entry about TCS since today is my last day with the company. What follows is a modified version of the article I wrote for the final company newsletter. Thanks to the writers of the series finale of M*A*S*H for the exceptional title that I stole from them. The numbers are staggering when…
Time Customer Service, or TCS as the company was more affectionately known, provided over 31 years of world-class fulfillment to the Time Inc. family of magazines, the National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian Institution, Foreign Affairs, and numerous other clients. The end of TCS had been expected since an announcement made by the Meredith Corporation in…