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Leadership, Part 3: The First of the 7 Cs: CRISIS
We have in the last part discussed the leadership opportunity created by a Crisis. If someone fears for their survival, their livelihood, or any other facet of their future, they are more apt to seek out a leader that can … Continue reading
Leadership: A Structured Analysis in 7 Cs–Part 2
Think back twelve years to Sept. 10, 2001. As I was pondering the traits of effective leaders, this date was just slightly over two years earlier. For those of you living in the United States, the world was completely different … Continue reading
Leadership: A Structured Analysis in 7 Cs
After a considerable vacation from blogging, I have decided to return. Of course, the Word Press dashboard looks completely different so I will have to spend some time learning where everything is and everything went. I am still beating (or … Continue reading
Mr. Procedure Discusses Procedures–Documenting Software (Part 1)
The topic of documenting software came up in one request for my Writing Operating Procedures book. This is an important topic to all technical writers and would-be technical writers, because writing in support of software applications is a significant and … Continue reading
Mr. Procedure Discusses Procedures (Introduction)
Ever since I first offered my Writing Operating Procedures course for free (!), I have had around 300 people contact me asking for a copy. I’d get a few requests, then I went onto LinkedIn and advertised it and got … Continue reading
Mr. Procedure’s Mad Cap Adventure–I Have Too Many Logs to Saw!
First of all, I am delighted to see such an uptick in visitors to mrprocedure.com! I am so sorry the increase in interest coincided with a decrease in activity, but I will do my best to remedy that. And I … Continue reading
Mr. Procedure’s Mad Cap Adventure–My Developer’s Christmas List
So far, so good…I have downloaded the Flare product onto my work computer and my home computer (the license permits two downloads as long as they are not on the same domain, meaning, I guess, two people in the same … Continue reading
Mr. Procedure’s Mad Cap Adventures — Introduction
I am a career Office worker. Not that I have worked in an office my whole life, but I have worked with Microsoft Office (at least since Word Perfect was purged at my prior employer). I have developed documents almost … Continue reading
A Return to First Principles (Part 12), Institutionalizing the Process
The outcome of the process analysis effort is that I have defined the very best way I currently know how to perform the process. That is, I know the way to most effectively achieve the process desired outcomes with minimal … Continue reading
A Return to First Principles (Part 11b), Unearthing the Treasure!
Process analysis and improvement are not for the faint of heart. There is a lot of work that has to take place. I hope the reader appreciates that what I am doing here is scratching the surface of analysis and … Continue reading
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