I was recently studying the anatomy of failed/troubled projects and following came out as a learning. Here are top 10 project management mistakes that should be avoided: Estimating project tasks based on poor inputs on scope and too MORE

When the year ends, we tend to retrospect. Look back and see what worked and what not. Here is a collection of some of the chosen posts, some essential lessons from each month of 2009 (our of total 93 posts written in Y09 MORE

I have a single employee, currently enrolled in our group health plan, who is getting married to someone who does not work with us in April. He wants to drop our health insurance group plan in favor of joining his bride's group plan with her employer when he gets married. But he has asked our business owner if we would be willing to pay his new wife's monthly premium. He's arguing that it would be cheaper for the company to do this instead of carrying him and his wife on our health care, and our boss likes the idea. Is this legit? Are we going down a road we don't want to travel? MORE

I have a single employee, currently enrolled in our group health plan, who is getting married to someone who does not work with us in April. He wants to drop our health insurance group plan in favor of joining his bride's group plan with her employer when he gets married. But he has asked our business owner if we would be willing to pay his new wife's monthly premium. He's arguing that it would be cheaper for the company to do this instead of carrying him and his wife on our health care, and our boss likes the idea. Is this legit? Are we going down a road we don't want to travel? MORE

In the very new future your company is going to have to shift to Enterprise 2.0 much like the internet shifted to Web 2.0. MORE

As you can see from the previous post on Generation Y, anything to do with stereotypes in the workplace generates a lot of discussion. decided to explore the issue further, really looking at what impacts us on the job -- is it our age MORE

First of all, thanks to Alex Drexel over at Talented Apps for posting about a recent NYT article Random Promotions positing that promoting people at random is better than promoting them for competence. It''s our old friend the Peter Principle in action, which states that a competent person will be promoted to his or her level of incompetence. It seems that some Italian scientist have now demonstrated the Peter Principle via computer simulation, which shows you''re better off picking names out of a hat than promoting someone who is good at their job. But life is ironic. MORE