I’m reading a fabulous new book that I received as a Christmas gift called The Survivors Club by Ben Sherwood. Sherwood sets out to find common denominators in people who have survived incredible odds…from mountain lion attacks to plane crashes to a knitting needle through the heart.
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Helping You Get “To Do” Done Better: Free Applications Every Small Business Must Have!
I owe half of the applications I use on a daily basis to my friend, Pete. He shakes his head every time he gets his hands on my computer and iPhone (both set up by him, thank you very much, Peter!). Inevitably I haven’t upgraded something I needed to or my desktop is too “messy”.
Project Management for Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses – Day 7 (Revealing the Secret Ingredient to any Successful Project)
The last posting in this series will reveal the one secret ingredient that allowed us to survive this entire “learning experience” case study with our “New Fangled Website”. The one thing that ensured, at the end of the day, that we actually DID end up with a product, however delayed it was. It’s not a secret project management technique. It’s not a process or scientific concept.
Project Management for Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses – Day 6 (Dusting off the Contract)
Part of the reason projects and, in particular, vendor and customer relationships head south is because contracts aren’t given the level of seriousness they deserve. In the land of Project Management, there is an entire area devoted to this oversight called “contract management”. Entrepreneurs and small businesses would do well to sit up and take an example from project management in this arena.
Project Management for Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses – Day 5 (Your Project’s Critical Tool: The Critical Path)
Today we reveal the secret that all good Project Managers know and that small business owners and entrepreneurs really SHOULD know. In Project-Management-ese, it’s called the “Critical Path” but really it’s just a way to make sure you’re not wasting precious time because you’ve sequenced your project incorrectly.
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