Bill Holmes
Project Management Basics – Chapter 3 – Project Metrics
“If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.” Mark Twain “We are what we measure,...
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Bill Holmes
- Jan 23, 2021
- 2 min
Project Management Basics – Chapter 2 – Needs Assessment
“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.” Elbert Hubbard “There are...
Bill Holmes
- Jan 17, 2021
- 2 min
Project Management Basics – Chapter 1 - Overview
The best way to predict the future is to create it.” Peter Drucker, Management Consultant and Author “Business opportunities are like...
Bill Holmes
- Jan 9, 2021
- 3 min
My 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 Holmes
- Jan 2, 2021
- 3 min
My 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...
Bill Holmes
- Dec 27, 2020
- 3 min
My 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...
Bill Holmes
- Dec 23, 2020
- 3 min
My 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...
Bill Holmes
- Dec 8, 2020
- 3 min
My 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 Holmes
- Dec 2, 2020
- 3 min
My 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...
Bill Holmes
- Nov 28, 2020
- 3 min
My 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 Holmes
- Nov 25, 2020
- 3 min
My 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.”...
Bill Holmes
- Nov 12, 2020
- 3 min
My 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 Holmes
- Oct 31, 2020
- 3 min
My 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 Holmes
- Oct 24, 2020
- 3 min
My 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...
Bill Holmes
- Oct 19, 2020
- 3 min
My 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...
Bill Holmes
- Oct 14, 2020
- 3 min
My 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...
Bill Holmes
- Sep 29, 2020
- 3 min
Tip 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...
Bill Holmes
- Sep 18, 2020
- 2 min
Tip 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...
Bill Holmes
- Sep 3, 2020
- 3 min
Tip 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...
Bill Holmes
- Aug 16, 2020
- 3 min
The 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...
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