The best project planning template for thought leadership
What’s the best project planning template for thought leadership content? Surprisingly, it’s not a project planning template at all. But it is something that people have been doing for thousands of years in every culture on the planet. Plus, with a little practice, you can use it to define your next project plan on a […]
Seven ways to have a Content Creation Breakthrough
To get better results from your content creation you need to create better content. Today this is more important than ever because more content creators are publishing more content every single day. If you’re not producing better quality content, then you’re being left behind. But how do you take your content creation to the next […]
Purpose for Business Experts – 4 Levels of Purpose
Purpose for Business Experts Purpose for business experts is a hot topic right now. I post regularly on LinkedIn, and it seems like everyone over there is talking about purpose. But what I’ve noticed is that most people are focusing on only one part of purpose and not all four parts. In this post, I’ll […]
How to be focused and stay focused at work
What does it mean to be focused? To be focused, we first need to define what we’re talking about. According to Google, the word ‘focus’ is searched between one million and ten million times every single month. That makes it a very popular and desirable thing. While some of these searches are looking for a […]
Do More With Less
Do More with Less Do More with Less is episode #111 of the Ideas Architect Podcast. Here is the video and transcript… Are you stretched to your limits? Are you just hanging on? Life is fast – keeping up with all the software updates is tough let alone mastering them Everything is complex – even […]
Project Passion – Ship Smaller Sooner
Project Passion One of the big ideas in Project Passion is borrowed from the work of Scrum and the Lean Startup: the MVP. This is to overcome one of the big mistakes many of us make in our projects is to pursue perfection. We naturally start our projects with the view of the perfect result […]
Business Coaching: Don’t Fix Problems
Business Coaching In my experience working with clients and business coaching, I find they usually know what they want. The big three are: More clients and more money Get more done in less time Create something new and wonderful Whilst these are all desirable things for any business, we risk failing when we pursue them for […]
How NOT to Plan Your Project
Plan Your Project The traditional message about how to plan your project is flawed. You’ve probably heard the old adage: to fail to plan is to plan to fail. And, if you only plan you will also fail. We are told to plan our project by only focusing on what we have to do. Typically […]
Project Design Books – Twelve of the Best
The thing that I am most proud of around Project Passion is that it was fuelled by Book Rapper. Yep, re-reading my own material provided the insight I needed. It’s a neat reminder for me about the value of great books and the RAPs as a quick reference guide. Thus, this list of Project Design […]
Project Passion Introduction Part 2
Project Passion and How to Bring Your Ideas to Life Project Passion focuses on how to bring your ideas to life. But how do you do that? If only it was as easy as going to Mcdonald’s and putting in an order… This would guarantee a quick response and only cost a few bucks. Plus […]