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What happened to Microsoft?

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Remember that software giant that helped make computers mainstream, thanks to its operating system called Windows? Remember the company that took the market shares of Corel, Lotus and IBM back in the 90s? Remember that browser that we all used to surf the web, you know, the blue E? Internet Explorer, that's right. I'm talking [...]

Irritants are important, too

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When selling a product or service, we tend to focus on the attractive traits of the product. Having the best features. Meeting the bestest, newest requirements on the market. Making the prospective customer's eye twinkle when they see our product. That's very important, because if there is no seduction, no twinkling in the eyes, there [...]

eBook review: Coaching Practices for Managers

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Project management is, in my opinion, much more about soft skills than processes and forms. In this short ebook published by the government of Canada, we get valuable advice and techniques to improve our leadership. Coaching Practices for Managers is a handbook to learn how to understand beyond what the person is really saying. It's [...]

Smarter structure for the new year

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Structure is good. Structure helps us make sense of our projects. Structure guides us. But does structure have to be so darn inflexible? Nouveau Variation from Syntopia I vow that in 2010, we put some smarts on our structure. That we walk away from rigidity and embrace a more intelligent way to structure our projects. [...]

Technology happens

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Software bugs by FlapJack Last week we held our Q&A webinars. The idea was simple: we wanted to answer everyone's questions about AceProject. Also, we had put together a little surprise for our attendees: screen shots of the upcoming cost tracking features. The first webinar went well and people we really happy with it! We [...]

Leaders: do you take mourning into account?

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Change by David Reece Last week I had the pleasure of attending a conference on leadership. The part that stuck with me was about change management and mourning. We tend to see resistance to change as stubbornness. Sometimes we even see it as bad faith. People who resist change (and we've all been there) have [...]

Internet Explorer 6: the support dilemna

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Microsoft will officially retire Internet Explorer 6 in July of 2010. The browser was originally released in late 2001. 9 years is not a bad run for a piece of software. In the last year, there has been a growing movement to stop supporting IE6 for websites and web applications. There's a good reason for [...]