Project Office

I am in foggy San Jose in Silicon Valley, teaching a course for Stevens at NASA Ames. It is an intense, inquisitive, and exceedingly bright group of students. Some of their questions got me to remember some truths in the proposal profession that I began to take for granted – so I am sharing them with you after quickly jotting them down at 4 am (I am still on the East Coast time). Here are some of my proposal lessons learned:

You will always be able to achieve far more when you work together as a unified and supportive team, you will not only be more effective and efficient as a valued member of a team, but you will also develop great relationships with people that matter and who support each other. Research has also shown that committed members of any team who really support each other and work towards achieving a meaningful outcome, are far more satisfied and content, they are happy and enjoy going to work with their fellow team members every day.

By Simon Buehring

The blessed few seem to glide through their working day, ticking off their daily tasks and contentedly dealing with all the interruptions that come their way. These were the kids who always handed in their science homework a day ahead of schedule, and never forgot their calculator for maths.

The Old Adage "You Get What You Pay For" Is Especially Important to Service Providers in Today's Economy

The 19th century British essayist John Ruskin once presciently stated, "There is scarcely a thing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply.

Communication is one of the basic functions of management in any organization and its importance can hardly be overemphasized. It is a process of transmitting information, ideas, thoughts, opinions and plans between various parts of an organization.

Albert Ellis, was an American psychologist, who in 1955 developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) once said,

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny".

In the new normal of this economy, innovation is key. Companies must innovate or they may not be around much longer. I talked in previous blogs about paying attention to companies that are thriving in this economy.

By Linda Henman

Aardvarks are really good at one thing: eating bugs-sometimes 50,000 in one night! No other creature on the planet can match their appetites. Star performers in their own corner of the jungle, when they tuck a napkin under their aardvark chins, they produce impressive results, just like your hard-working employees can in their jobs.

WE ALL FACE THE SAME DAILY DILEMMA: TOO MUCH TO DO AND NOT ENOUGH TIME TO DO IT. TIME MANAGEMENT CONCERNS HOW WE RESOLVE THAT DILEMMA. Time, not activities, is the limiting factor. We must make tough choices about what to do and what not to do. Time management is really self-management.

Outsourcing has gathered a great number of followers in this day and age. There are even companies that highly look up to it as something that would magically take all their worries away. However, there are others who are considering this trend to be the start of low profiling management tactics. Knowing what's and what's not of outsourcing is vital.