The name of an initiative is an oft-overlooked aspect of communications. You'll get a decent name if you work with an experienced OCM crew. However, the most effective names I've seen weren't focus-group tested so to speak MORE >>

Just Ask Leadership Fail. finally have a few minutes — semi-snowbound here in Evansville — to catch up on old posting themes. Earlier this year I had a chance to do a Q&A with Gary Cohen, author of JUST ASK LEADERSHIP: Why Great MORE >>

Dan Ackerson at Boost Agile (@boostagile, HT  Craig Brown @brown_note)) posted on what he calls “cross-dysfunctional” development teams.  He focuses on an all-too-common case: developers want to keep working on to new features, but support and QA types want the bugs cleaned up.  MORE >>

Reihan is one of the most prolific and wide-ranging writers I know (The Agenda blog here , he also writes for The Daily ).  His post “ The Power of Good Management and the Frontier Dilemma &# is a great example of his balance of theory, thought, and practice. that consistently outperform existing best practices. Filed under: PMO. MORE >>

Talk about wisdom of the ancients… this CBS News article highlights the Japanese village of Aneyoshi, which heeded the warning of an old stone marker: “High dwellings are the peace and harmony of our descendants,&# the stone slab reads. “Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes below this point.&#. MORE >>