Yannick Grenzinger's notes

I have read four books from PMBA recently. The power of less from Leo Babauta and The power of full engagement from Jim loehr and Tony Schwartz, two books about Productivity & Effectiveness. The first one presents how to : break any goal down into manageable tasks focus only on a few task at a time create new and productive habits increase our efficiency. The second presents that energy, not time, is our most precious resource, how to mobilize our four source of energy (physical, emmotional, mental and spiritual) and the necessity to balance stress with recovery. I have also read the Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz but i am actually not convinced and it is very complicated to explain it shortly. However you can find an excellent presentation here and here . Finally I have read Brain rules. This one is really a fantastic book. John Medina, a developmental molecular biologist, presents how brain works in twelve chapters. Each chapter presents one important fact about...

Reporting time used in project is a boring task that most of us must do to please our manager, especially in big firm. Why is it boring ? Because it has no interest for the worker ? And why tell what we are doing if the work is done ? Because we must do it multiple times ? One for the accounting departement, one for the project manager and one during team meeting ? Because the tool are frequently slow and horrible to use ? I think we can find many reasons to hate reporting our work time. However It's an important thing to keep track of what are you doing for your managers but also your coworker and even for you. So why not try to change a boring into something usefull ? I have some ideas and I want to try to present something. To help me, I have recently discover Grails . Yet Another new java framework ? oh yes but this one is really cool. It takes the main idea of Ruby on rails with all java environnement. The most impressive advantage of Grails is that you can have your next Web ...

Après avoir lu l'Art de la Guerre par Sun Tzu , je viens de finir le Prince de Machiavel . Le premier est un excellent livre mais il reste un ouvrage dont les principes sont très rattachés à la stratégie militaire. A mon avis, il est difficile de les juxtaposer dans d'autres domaines de nos sociétés occidentales. Le deuxième, cependant, mérite complètement sa lecture. Principalement car il présente des principes fondamentaux dans la politique surtout dans son contexte de lutte de pouvoir. Et la politique et les luttes de pouvoir sont présentes dans beaucoup de domaines. On peut ainsi facilement retrouver des conseils applicables dans de grands groupes. Mais, particularité intéressante, j'y ai trouvé une relation entre ces principes et le management de projet. Pour ca, il faut voir les qualités d'un Prince que présente Machiavel : - les scrupules dans la préparation (bonne spécification ? test driven development ?) - l'énergie dans la conquête (conquête rapide et i...

Utilisez-vous des outils pour reporter votre temps passé ainsi que votre avancement sur les taches sur lesquelles vous travaillez ? Quel genre d'outil ? Feuilles Excel partagées ? Application web développée en interne ? Outil externe ? Trouver vous ces outils pratiques à utiliser ? Comment voudriez-vous les utiliser de façon plus rapide/pratique ? En plus de ce reporting, avez d'autres actions à effectuer pour remonter l'information vers vos managers (réunion, mails...) ? Merci ! Vous pouvez aussi faire le sondage en ligne ici : http://www.misterpoll.com/polls/440001

First, for my personnal MBA, i have now finished three more books : Making thing happen, explaining all project management. Cuting to the chase, 100 usefull tips to be more effective in jobs. Crucial Conversation, very interesting book explaining how to handle difficult problem with dialogue. For my eBusiness and testing blog www.goth-corsets.com , I'm adding slowly more content. I am also tweaking wordpress plugins and Meta description to have a clean content analysis by Google bot. By mystic of SEO, my page rank is getting worse in Yahoo and a lot better for Google. I'm also reading a 31 day challenge about blogs from probloggers.com and doing some articles for quittersonjob.fr

Since, last post one month has passed, again too fast. Lot's of work in my current job and a lot of desillusion. However I have found some time to continue my business challenge. I have open www.goth-corsets.com website with a wordpress blog. I have begin to add some contents. I have also done a lot of rework to correct the content, suppress duplicate content from other webiste, correct url or have correct categories. All of this was mainly done for search engine optimization and I am very disappointed of the results. After having a good classement for "goth corsets" keyword, I have almost now referencing on Google. I have to understand ... On the other side, Yahoo is helping me with 4th page for "goth corsets" and "goth corset" results. In parallel, I am doing some articles for a friend website called www.quittersonjob.fr

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