The Rogue Project Management DIY MBA ( EIEIO)

Posted on 28. Sep, 2006 by Wayne in General

There have been a lot of posts flying around since I wrote the article on “I don’t have a degree…” for Rosa Say’s Talking Story. Well, one of the other contributors was Dan Ward from show 63 and the host of Rogue Project Management.

Here’s the Rogue Project Management Do It Yourself MBA program… I heartily concur.

Here’s how it starts and just goes on from from there…

The general approach goes something like this:

 

• Read a bunch of the books on this list. Underline the good parts. 
• Think about what you read. Digest it. Re-read some of it. 
• Write something, preferably for publication in a magazine, professional journal and/or Rogue Project Leader, that demonstrates your understanding of some Rogue principles. Full-length books are good too. 
• Do something that demonstrates your ability to translate all this reading into meaningful action. 
• Tell the story of what you did, preferably in a professional journal and/or Rogue Project Leader. 
• Send a list of the books you completed to Rogue University (RPLeditor@gmail.com), along with links to your publication(s). 
• Receive a Rogue Master certificate, suitable for framing and signed by the Deans of Rogue University. 

The Cranky Middle Manager Show #64- Unlocking Strategic Gridlock with Pam Harper

Posted on 25. Sep, 2006 by Wayne in Podcast

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The Cranky Middle Manager Show #064

Show Notes

0:00 Welcome to Episode 64 of The Cranky Middle Manager. Today we talk Unlocking Strategic Gridlock with Pamela Harper. The show is dedicated to all Middle Managers just muddling through. The show is dedicated to General Charles Lee, someone more renowned for mucking up a perfectly good battle plan than having Fort Lee, New Jersey named after him.

3:12 Yeah, I’m in that kind of mood so it’s time for another quote from Oscar Wilde.

4:25 What is Strategic Gridlock? Bless her heart, Pam thinks it’s a mysterious paralysis… I don’t think it’s mysterious at all but then my glass is half empty…which reminds me, I have to go refill my glass.

6:40 Pam tells a story that later shows up in this White Paper. Truth is, the further into an organization they go, the less everyone knows the big picture. I come up with a beautiful example…. gee, even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while I guess.

10:34 How do organizations do everything right and still go wrong? A big issue is- Do the internal and external stakeholders even understand the strategy?

13:34 Then the darned thing has to be communicated and internalized. The problem is the communication needs to be credible, which is setting the bar a little high in most instances.

17:34 Do people know why they should execute the strategy? What’s in it for them?

22:23Â Do you have the checkpoints and milestones in place?

24:50 Now we get to it….how do Middle Managers impact strategy? What can we do (within our sphere of influence)

Resources

The usual suspects appear- Freakonomics,

The Tipping Point,

The Balanced Scorecard (we talked to one of the authors, David Norton back in show24)

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50 Great Blogs for Management and Personal Development

Posted on 25. Sep, 2006 by Wayne in General

Lisa Haneberg over at Management Craft has, with the help of some friends, put together a list of 50 blogs especially for management and training folks. Some of them are familiar to those of you who follow this show. 

I am honored to make the list, if only because for the first and only time in my life I’m ahead of Tom Peters.

Check out the selection and read something new today. It’s good for ya.

I Don’t Have a Degree

Posted on 19. Sep, 2006 by Wayne in General

At least not one that counts…. I was honored to contribute to Rosa Say’s “Ho’ohana” ( which is a fancy Polynesian way of saying month-long blog fest) on the topic of learning anyway.

Read the full article here. You’ll also find familiar names and former guests like Adrian Savage, Dan Ward, Lisa Haneberg and others besides Rosa Say herself.

We talked to Rosa back in September of 2005 about her book, Managing With Aloha. Even more than her book, I envy the community of bright people who regularly devour every word, support each other’s work and aspire to all the positive aspects of management and business without cynicism. Why they let me play is a mystery but God love’em.