“To understand what determines whether a job is designed for high performance, you must put yourself in the shoes of your organization’s managers. To carry out his or her job, each employee has to know the answer to four basic questions…”

“Blog this: U.S. workers in 2005 will waste the equivalent of 551,000 years reading blogs.”

“Much of the used computer equipment sent from the United States to developing countries for use in homes, schools and businesses is often neither usable nor repairable, creating enormous environmental problems in some of the world’s poorest places, according to a report to be issued today by an environmental organization.”

“Are you in the midst of a traditional development project that cannot take a leap toward Agile, but you know could benefit from being nudged in that direction? Does your project have stakeholders or management who are willing to discuss the merits of Agile development but won’t give you the time to investigate an Agile methodology, much less switch to it? Are you a project manager or team lead who has read or heard a bit about Agile development and wants to experiment with it but are, yourself, too skeptical to make a large upfront investment?”