Are you looking for an inspiring project?

Let’s say you’re a great Project Leader…you know how to do it!  You grok it!  And you’re asking yourself the question: “What shall I do next?”

You know it’s going to be big and you know it’s going to be important because it’s GOT to be inspiring. It’s got to be something that is worth you and your team spending your most precious and irreplaceable resource on (time)…

Well here a couple of sources of inspiration for you:

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

http://www.geni.org/

The Catherine Jones Foundation – A small project with huge Implications.

Do something meaningful to you, today! 

— Philip Greenwood

P.S. This IS my meaningful project.

Tags: Projects

SmartDraw and Project Management

Recently the kind people at SmartDraw asked me whether I’d like to review their software – and since it’s one of the things we do here, the answer is “yes please”.  I haven’t done it yet, but their tool looks to have elements that support project managers and project leaders in producing compelling communications – core stuff!  I’ll be posting my thoughts on it here shortly.

They also informed me of a tips page on their website that you might be interested in:

10 Project Management Tips from SmartDraw

— Philip Greenwood

Tags: SmartDraw

Have you read it?

Have you read “7 Secrets of Project Leadership” yet?  It’s free, and you can get it at www.realprojectleadership.com !

— Philip Greenwood

Tags: 7+secrets, Project+Leadership

Falling (back) in Love with the Future

I don’t know when I lost it, but I think I lost my way.  Somehow I lost my love of the future.  I became content to just be neophilic – to love the new.  If I was to put a date on it, I would say that some time in 2001, I stopped thinking about wonderful, possible, futures.

I was reading this free e-book: Life…what a concept!!!  Here’s the recipe:  Get a group of big-brained scientists who work at the leading edge of their diverse but related fields, put them on a farm retreat for a couple of days, give them license to speculate about the future, and publish the conversation.  It’s fascinating (and sometimes challenging) reading, and as I was reading it I realised I’d found my optimism again...welcome, old friend.

It’s published by Edge, and there’s much more on thier site to stimulate the grey matter.  Enjoy!

— Philip Greenwood

 

 

Tags: Life, Optimism, Future