Bill Holmes4 days ago2 minProject Management Basics – Chapter 1 - OverviewThe best way to predict the future is to create it.” Peter Drucker, Management Consultant and Author “Business opportunities are like bus...
Bill HolmesJan 93 minMy experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 13 – Final lesson and summary“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.” Will Rogers “When someone would mistreat, misinform, misuse, misguide,...
Bill HolmesJan 23 minMy experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 12 – Lessons Learned Part 4“It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.” Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter “Never give a clown too many balls to ju...
Bill HolmesDec 27, 20203 minMy experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 11 – Lessons Learned Part 3“The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence.” Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words “Secrecy br...
Bill HolmesDec 23, 20203 minMy experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 10 – Lessons Learned Part 2“Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hi...
Bill HolmesDec 8, 20203 minMy experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 9 - Lessons Learned Part 1“The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.” Orrin Woodward “When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not...
Bill HolmesDec 2, 20203 minMy experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 8 – How I got canceled: The Final Result“Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hi...
Bill HolmesNov 28, 20203 minMy experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 7 – How I got canceled: They use your decency against you“A campaign ought to demonstrate the basic human decency of the candidate. That means your First Amendment rights end at the tip of your ...
Bill HolmesNov 25, 20203 minMy experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 6 – How I got canceled: He owned the system “Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.” Henry Kissinger “Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.” Fra...
Bill HolmesNov 12, 20203 minMy experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 5 – How I got canceled: Abuse the process!“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who...
Bill HolmesOct 31, 20203 minMy experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 4 – How I got canceled: Lies, lies and more lies!“I’m not upset that you lied to me; I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” Friedrich Nietzsche “Lies are like cockroaches, for ...
Bill HolmesOct 24, 20203 minMy experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 3 – How I got canceled: He faked being a victim“This is the culture of the micro-aggression, where people literally seek out opportunities to be offended....Victim status is so desirab...
Bill HolmesOct 19, 20203 minMy experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 2 – How I got canceled: He aligned his resources“There are no permanent alliances, only permanent interests.” Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston “Now the only sure basis of an a...
Bill HolmesOct 14, 20203 minMy experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 1 – Background"Cancel culture is not actually about justice. It is about control. People use cancellation to force conformity to ideals.” Teal Swan “Th...
Bill HolmesSep 29, 20203 minTip 3 for the Remote Manager – Follow the rules!“People. They're not all bad, but do you really want to risk it? Perhaps that was the unofficial motto of the Soviet Union...” Dmitry Dya...
Bill HolmesSep 18, 20202 minTip 2 for the Remote Manager – Provide structure“I thrive in structure. I drown in chaos.” Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody “Structure significantly influences behavior, thereby dra...
Bill HolmesSep 3, 20203 minTip 1 for the Remote Manager – People First"Remote work is the future of work." Alexis Ohanian, Reddit "You can never over-communicate enough as a leader at a company, but at a rem...
Bill HolmesAug 16, 20203 minThe pandemic got you down? Look to Maslow!“Overthinking is not a disease; it is due to the underuse of your creative power.” Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations “Your ...
Bill HolmesJul 31, 20202 minChaos isn’t a pit, it’s a ladder“Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is the ladder, and the climb is all there is.” Petyr Baelish, Game of Thrones “In the midst of chaos, there is ...
Bill HolmesJul 21, 20203 minUsing simple phrases to convey complex ideas“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World “Without education, we are in a ho...
