Have you gotten together in a team and divided work unsuccessfully? Perhaps you worked in a student team creating business plans, and two classmates thought they were in charge of researching financials, leaving market research a huge hole in your presentation. Maybe you were running a charity event, and your co-worker forgot to grab the […]
Way, way too late one night this week, Jacob and I got to talking. It was one of those late night conversations that involves a lot of inside jokes and giggling, the laugh of the sleep deprived. We discussed where we thought Fellowstream could take us: we would hit a million Twitter followers, manage 20-person […]
A few weeks ago, I showed you the first screenshot of Fellowstream ever, its ticketing system. As Avalon Labs marches ever closer to a beta version of Fellowstream, we will continue to show screenshots of our beloved team management tool. Today, I’m proud to give you a sneak peek of Fellowstream’s project management system. Of […]
I had the opportunity to write a blog for a great site called Career Life Connection. The site focuses on helping people who work remotely to be effective. It also acts as a support network for all professionals looking for the golden chalice that is “Work Life Balance.” The website’s founder, Leanne Chase, started the […]
I just read a great blog over at Altitude Branding about the difference between working hard and working smart. It’s a trap I have fallen into before. For example, when I start a new ambiguous project, I often find myself doing the “task-oriented” stuff (such as writing blogs or compiling customer lists) rather than dive […]
I am amazed how often people will completely abandon an idea after they test it out once. It’s easy to find examples from daily life. You write a great essay and show it to one person who hates it, then throw it away. You discover a new restaurant and ask one friend to go, who […]
Once while doing a student project where we were tasked to write our strategic recommendations for a Caribbean cruise company, I was paired with a student who said, “You can write the actual paper, Deborah. I am a thinker, not a doer.” Now, to be fair, if there ever was a guy meant to be […]
I recently posted a question in the LinkedIn group Project Management Link about how project managers juggle the needs of meeting a schedule versus taking suggestions from team members once the project has started (which could push the project back). Here are the spectrum of responses: Leaning Toward Schedule “Managing projects involves different roles and […]
I just saw this characteristically brief post on Seth Godin’s blog celebrating the death of the “big event.” He no longer sees the need for big annual sales events, big product launches, or other big marketing events that cater to mass marketing. To be honest, I’ve never been good at the “big events.” I enjoy […]
Is the customer always right? I’m going to go out on a limb here and say, “no.” In the first place, the customer doesn’t always know what they want. The first time I heard of deep frying a turkey, I balked. You mean, the same thing you use to cook French fries, you want to […]
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