Mark Templeton

Mark Templeton (Citrix) credits his trajectory from mid-level manager to CEO solely to his personal investment in communication. Once a manager focused on tactics, he evolved into a leader by becoming a student of communications and learning how to instill vision.

Nancy Duarte, Slide:ology

All happy families

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Does Leo Tolstoy's opening line to Anna Karenina also hold true for projects -- are all projects that just progress smoothly from the start alike, but each that fails or at least becomes a long slog to finish do so in unique ways?

Does this extend to organizations as well?

That question formed in my mind while in a meeting today. While I didn't come to any conclusion after pondering it for a while, I did decide it's an important question to ask.