I've been chatting back and forth on email, blogs, and forums around several things of interest to me this week. Some conversations were fruitful some were not. These topics include: Earned Value, Project Management, and the competencies needed to successfully manage project. On the way home from Montgomery Alabama... 

AIG’s new CEO may be taking home a $7 million salary, but average workers, and even average executives, got the lowest pay increase on record last year. Human resources consulting firm Hewitt Associates released its annual salary survey last week, and found that salary increases for 2009 were below 3%, on average,... 

Students from my Strategic Management classes (and those taught by my colleague Tom), will be familiar (if not sick of) the champagne example we use to illustrate and explore the Five Forces framework. We spend quite a bit of time trying to untangle that likely dynamics of the relationship between the numerous (but...