As a project manager you have different stakeholders and orientations you need to focus on.  It's tough to cover all directions at once and you probably have a preferred approach. Gill Corkindale at HBR writes about the inward and outwad facing...

Brittle code The idea of brittle code is that as compromises are made due to competence or deadlines shortcuts and workarounds gradually build up. This leaves you with code debt, which is a sort of maintenance debt. You’ll have to deal with the...

Always have. I learned to hate it when I use to see people report their work was 90% done for weeks (even months) in a row, but I knew they were really wasting time on unimportant or at leaast less important things. I have always had a streak of...

"Surfing the net at work for pleasure actually increases our concentration levels and helps make a more productive workforce, according to a new University of Melbourne study." See the original article here, and an HBR elaboration on why social media...

Here's an idea that was suggested to me today; People who resist change will still change.  They just change slower than others. Why? The idea is that resisters are really trying to hold the status quo.  If your early adopters and the middle packs...