Today, Cranky Middle Manager Wayne Turmel talks to one of the great voices in leadership studies, Frances Hesselbein about leadership, Peter Drucker and her new book, The Organization of the Future 2. Oh and sorry about the size of the file, don’t know what’s going on with that….. ...

I'm a visual learner, so I occasionally create PowerPoint slides to provide another way of understanding and communicating the concepts I'm writing about.  I wanted make it easier to reference these slides, so here's a compilation of posts where graphic images have (hopefully) helped to augment...

Everyone gets angry form time to time. It is when controlling that anger becomes an issue that professional help is needed. Anger management counseling allows an individual the opportunity of talking with a health care professional in the attempt to resolve their problems of controlling the rage tha...

We are an exciting oil & gas company servicing oil major in Malaysia and overseas. We specialize in EPCC of oil & gas terminal, multi-discipline construction of oil & gas plants. We are now looking for qualified candidates to expand their career with us in Indonesia, Malaysia & overs...

Author and anthropologist Grant McCracken had a good line a few months ago on the conventional wisdom about the generational divide: The other day I found myself thinking that every time I hear Millennials described: 1.  the tone is that of a smug outsider. 2.  the speaker is not a Millennial. I'm...

Everyone these days is chasing after the billion-dollar idea. We look at the giants in the technology industry – Google, Yahoo, eBay, even Microsoft – and see companies that only a few years ago (or a couple decades ago in Microsoft’s case) were tiny startups struggling to get by. When they hi...

Attracting new clients is one of the toughest challenges to most small business owners.  You can spend thousands on advertising without hearing your phone ring once.  And you can spend hours and hours going to networking events only to find yourself on everyone else's mailing lists and yours remai...

As I wrote earlier this week, I spent Tuesday morning listening to Bill George and his colleagues from the Authentic Leadership Institute, Nick Craig and Tim Dorman, discussing leadership at the Stanford Faculty Club.  In addition to Bill's remarks, Nick and Tim led the audience through an exercise...

Today, Cranky Middle Manager Wayne Turmel talks to Chris Sims of the Technical Management Institute about Agile software development and managing in an Agile environment. Oh, and we look at Gaius Marius who helped the Roman army reorganize and talk about an upcoming webinar for managers with remote ...

A few months ago, I was interested in offsite backup, and thought I’d give Mozy a try. Their Home Backup plan intrigued me. It was only $4.95, and was billed as unlimited. Could it actually work as advertised? Short answer is no, not by a long shot. Sure, it only costs $4.95/month. That much i...