Thursday, December 29, 2011

How to get out of vicious cycle of debt

Summary of article in the Daily Nation by Moses Korir
  1. Manage your expenses
  2. Prepare a budget before spending
  3. increase your savings
  4. accelerate debt reduction
  5. repay the loans with the highest interest first
  6. Find a way to accelerate the loan repayments
  7. Negotiate for longer loan repayment periods
  8. Negotiate the terms if the fundamentals change e.g. base interest rates
  9. Save more and spend less

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

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This will be a great way to post


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The Best Cover Letter I Ever Received

What do you think?

 The Best Cover Letter I Ever Received

David Silverman

David Silverman has had ten careers so far, including entrepreneur, executive, and business writing professor. He is the author of Typo: The Last American Typesetter or How I Made and Lost 4 Million Dollars and of the April 2011 HBR article, Synthesis: Constructive Confessions.

How to Write a Résumé That Doesn't Annoy People

This is an interesting article.

 How to Write a Résumé That Doesn't Annoy People

David Silverman

David Silverman has had ten careers so far, including entrepreneur, executive, and business writing professor. He is the author of Typo: The Last American Typesetter or How I Made and Lost 4 Million Dollars and of the April 2011 HBR article, Synthesis: Constructive Confessions.

How to Accomplish More by Doing Less

Does this work? Is the 90 min "work time" scientific?

How to Accomplish More by Doing Less

Tony Schwartz

Tony Schwartz is the president and CEO of The Energy Project and the author of Be Excellent at Anything. Become a fan of The Energy Project on Facebook and connect with Tony at Twitter.com/TonySchwartz and Twitter.com/Energy_Project.

How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen

A great read. Best article for 2011 for me.

 how will you measure your life?

 


Monday, December 19, 2011

Any recommendations for a project management software?


  1.  Ms Project
  2. AtTask
  3. Metier
  4. Microsoft Visio
  5. Codendi by Xerox http://www.condendi.com
  6. Smartsheet: http://www.smartsheet.com
  7.  Redmine: http://www.redmine.org
  8. Sciforma
  9. EPM Live
  10. GranttProject
  11. Primavera of Oracle
  12. BrightWork's pmPoint
  13. Genius Project
  14. www.deskaway.com
  15. Asa Powerproject at www.astadev.com
  16. WORKetc
  17. WORKetc
  18. MindJet's MindManager application
  19. http://online-project-management-review.toptenreviews.com/
  20. Corecon's web-based suite of software for estimating, project management, job cost control, scheduling and collaboration.
  21. Zoho (https://www.zoho.com/projects/).




How Do We Learn to Be Good Project Managers?


Successful people work 16 hours a day. If you work only eight hours, you belong to the ordinary who work for survival. If you work for another eight hours, you belong to the extraordinary, who plan and work to reach greater heights – Manuel Villar (Real Estate Magnate)

Strenuous individual application is the price paid for distinction: excellence of any sort is placed beyond the reach of indolenceSamuel Smiles
The Business Daily Top 40 under 40 is out. For those who are in that age bracket... why are you not on the list.

http://www.businessdaily...m/-/Top40under40Men.pdf

Enjoy :-)


Friday, December 2, 2011

The factors of successful project management


Why Projects Succeed

Some useful links on why projects succeed
  1. http://www.coleyconsulting.co.uk/failure.htm
  2. http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/four-levels-of-project-success.html
  3. http://judykat.com/ken-judy/agile-projects-succeed-fail-company-agile-methods/
  4. http://www.spspro.com/.../9-What%20Makes%20Projects%20Succeed%20070213%20long.pdf
  5. http://standishgroup.com/newsroom/chaos_manifesto_2011.php 
  6. http://www.dave2001.com/tensuccessreasons.htm
  7. http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=209668

Why projects fail

Some useful links on why most IT projects fail.
  1. http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/why-does-project-management-fail.html
  2. http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/avoid-failed-projects.html
  3. http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/most-it-projects-fail-will-yours.html
  4. http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/reducing-risk-increasing-probability-of-project-success.html 
  5. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/84266/Why_IT_projects_fail
  6. http://www.byte-vision.com/BusinessGoalsArticle.aspx
  7. http://www.coleyconsulting.co.uk/failure.htm
  8. http://www.stellman-greene.com/Why_Projects_Fail.pdf
  9. http://www.projectperfect.com.au/
  10. http://www.adaptivepartners.com/projfailb.htm
  11. http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/docs/chaos-report.pdf