It is often argued that leaders are born they are not made

In various professional courses like MBAs, business schools, the syllabus is incorporated with techniques of business leadership coaching

People sending in applications for a job can just be a pest… read about my conclusions and decisions.

This is the new kid on the open source project management software block… PHPAGA is a cool quotation, project management, time tracking, invoicing tool

RentACoder gets better, while GetAfreeLancer get’s worse when it comes to provider quality

Job titles are important for people – even for SEO people

Ticket Tracking with Hierarchival Task Management, Field-Level Visibility for clients, employees and managers, inheritance of project structure setups(!) and running on five operational systems, seven DBMSs, five application servers, and the two major browsers IE and FF

The discipline of project management is becoming a mature one… What are the role of standards in a maturing industry and what the heck IS project management anyway?

Team building has become one of the biggest buzzwords in management circles with good reason. It’s difficult to refute the advantages of having a well-oiled workgroup team that supplements and supports each others’ skills and competencies. The prevalence of the *team work concept* has led management to toss out competition as a motivator on their projects – an unfortunate loss, rather like tossing out the baby with the bathwater. Let me digress a moment.

It is impossible to always have the exact expertise that you need in house in order to get the job done. A *subcontractor* may be the best way to go. A skilled subcontractor will allow your regular staff to concentrate on projects that they are proficient in, and that can often be the best way to keep your staff on track and working at their optimal speed.

Using subcontractors gives you a number of advantages…