Unforgettable communication skills that will set your ideas free…
Man, once you are in charge, things are going to be different around here! Specifically, you won’t have to work so hard to convince your audience that they should see things your way. However, until that day arrives, perhaps it would be worth our time to take a look at a few ways to persuade […]
I don’t care if you’re the best IT Leader this world has ever known, you may still find yourself without a job sometime – especially in this economy. Yeah, yeah we all know that we should have been networking like crazy all along; however, the sad truth is that all too often we neglect […]
I’m guessing that you wouldn’t go to work naked. Then why-oh-why are heading off to your product management job when you don’t have all of the skills that you’ll need to do the job correctly? I’m not sure if this is going to make you feel any better, but it turns out that most product […]
We all like to think of ourselves as fairly good negotiators who are constantly getting better. However, it’s time that we take a moment and acknowledge that there will always be someone better than us out there. Someone to whom negotiating skills come as almost a second nature. Whose very survival, arguably, could depend on […]
In IT we often get accused of willy-nilly making up new acronyms on the fly. In all honesty, yes we do do this sometimes. However, there is a more subtle word problem that has been creeping around the edges of IT for a long time that nobody’s been brave enough to bring up: we have […]
How many emails do you send every day: 10, 50, 100, more? These days email seems to be the #1 way that we both send and get information. Too bad you never took a class in high school on how to do email right…
On Thursday March 31st, 2011, Dr. Jim Anderson spoke as a part of the 28th annual New York Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Conference. This year the conference’s theme was “Managing in Times of Uncertainty”. The conference was attended by over 100 professional supply chain, purchasing, and logistics managers from the New York, New Jersey […]
Click here for a video overview of Dr. Anderson’s presentation at ProductCamp Chicago…
Dr. Jim Anderson was recently contacted in order to get his opinion on one of the more pressing communication issues of the day: what’s happened to all of the blogs? Dr. Anderson’s firm, Blue Elephant Consulting, has managed and published 6 separate blogs for the past four years. John Brandon from the U.K publication TechRadar.com […]
Dr. Jim Anderson hosted the 3rd annual Tampa Bay Engineering Week Banquet which was held on Friday, February 25th, 2011. Dr. Anderson acted as the ringmaster for the evening’s events which were attended by over 350 local engineers. He was responsible for coordinating the awarding of 27 separate awards, introduction of the evening’s keynote speaker, […]