management posts

Two Kinds of Teams - Shared Leader and Single Leader

Should team task assignments be controlled by a project manager, or should each team member create and accept tasks? You can get a big increase in performance if you know when to use each of these methods of organization.
A client wrote: “my plan was to have them work separately first and then after they passed […]

How to Build a Custom ASP

In 1999, there was a huge surge in interest in ASP’s for enterprise software. By 2001, pundits declared the model a failure. One analysis was that ASP’s wouldn’t be able to effectively service enterprise customers, because the systems needed to be customized and integrated, and doing so would …
In 1999, there was a huge surge […]

“Blink” and the Art of Hiring the Best

What if you could tell, immediately, whether a given person is going to be a great addition to your team? You would be the greatest manager in the history of the world. Thats the promise held out by a careful reading of the book Blink, the Power of Thinking without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell.
Hiring the […]