Free eBook: What Matters Now

Just doing my part in spreading the word…

What Matters Now

Seth Godin and a bunch of other prominent Internet personalities / 21st century thinkers are giving away a free ebook of micro-essays on what you should think about in the coming year.

Here's the deal: it's free. Download it here. Or from any of the many sites around the web that are posting it with insightful commentary. Tweet it, email it, post it on your own site. I think it might be fun to make up your own riff and post it on your blog or online profile as well. It's a good exercise. Can we get this in the hands of 5 million people? You can find an easy to use version on Scribd as well and from wepapers. Please share.

Seeing that I still have a lot of bandwidth available on this site for this month, I might as well host the file to lessen the load on his blog:

Download What Matters Now

The Tyranny of "The Plan"

The Tyranny of The Plan

The Empire State Building was built in only 410 days, on schedule and 18% under-budget even without computers to handle the schedule.

PERT, like the Waterfall Model, was never meant to be used in real life.

Just two of the lessons you’ll learn about management in Mary Poppendieck’s presentation The Tyranny of “The Plan” recently hosted on InfoQ.

I’m just lucky I’m not in a traditional project while watching the presentation. Hehehe…