Everybody loves a good framework. A step-by-step process to unlocking success with defined guardrails and exercises. Even better if that framework comes with a simple visual representation. Something akin to building a house, laying a foundation, framing up the walls, and filling it with joy and wonder. We in the business symbolism world rarely build […]
Read MoreI remember as a tween, showing off how high I could kick by kicking as high as my classmates’ faces when they’d done something offensive. I don’t remember what those offenses were, but I do remember that in short order, I had acquaintances coming to me asking me to “beat up” so-and-so. What a weird […]
Read MoreRecently, I’ve been approached by two different recruiters looking to hire me for my Mandarin skills. (My brother will ask “what skills?”) But nevertheless, Mandarin is listed on my LinkedIn profile as one of my languages, alongside C#, Java, and the rest of my professional experience. The first time, I laughed and sent a screenshot […]
Read MoreLast night, before I wrote the Solo Fi post, I pulled up Facebook and navigated to the only group I had where I thought I could ask the question about dating. The “Hello Seven: Take Your Business From $100k to $1m” group is a collection of boss woman claiming their success and supporting each other. The […]
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Alright, we always have to start with the fundamental question- What is risk? Risk is the possibility that an event, positive or negative, impacting a project’s outcome could happen. For most traditional projects, positive risk has only one response- accept. Work got done faster than we thought? Cool, put that extra time into our schedule […]
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When I made the spur-of-the-moment decision to start my own project management consulting business, I didn’t give the structure of my latest scheme much of a thought. I’d been reading plenty of books about negotiation and doing what makes you happy that included examples related to starting a business that made me feel like my […]
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When I set out to leave my ledge behind me, I erased the large “Say YES to YOURSELF” message from my vision board and replaced it with a poorly rendered doodle of my stick-figure self-stuck halfway up a rock climbing wall that I had previously struggled with. I’ve tackled this route several times at the […]
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