The Innovator's Dilemma Summary

This is an excellent summary of the book, The Innovator's Dilemma, by Clayton Christensen. I stumbled across it on https://gist.github.com/839384. Anyone involved with trying to create something new inside your organization should read and absorb this information.

Goal Tracking - New Year's Resoutions

I believe it was Mark Twain who said that at the beginning of a new year "is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual."

This year, as usual, we sat down with a family to figure out what our New Year's resolutions are. It was interesting that each of my kids already had them in their minds: Be better at turning in homework; Get straight A's; Learn to do the splits; Learn to read chapter books; Learn to dance. It was good to get them to vocalize them. That's the first step. But the hardest part is yet to come. That's where I'm going to try out some new goal tracking software solution called joesgoals.com. It's easy. It's free. It seems effective.

Joesgoals.com has a lot of great reviews for quite a few credible sources and recently won an award from ChannelFlip. Give it a try for a month and post your comments on if it actually worked for you and how you achieve your goals in 2010. I'm anxious to hear your successes or failures. Good luck with your goal tracking.

iProjecTrak™ - Free Project Management Task Software

I've been really frustrated lately trying to manage dozens of projects and their tasks. It seemed like every time I went to a meeting I was having to try and dig through my brain or old notes about the status of my (and others') tasks.

So I've created a solution that I've named iProjecTrak™. This is a simple project management task tracking solution that keeps all of your projects in one Excel document. I built it so you have everything you need in one place. No more digging through old notes (or brain cells). It's all at your fingertips. Running to you project managment meeting? Just print it out and use it for notes. After the meeting and put the notes in the document. Managing multiple projects? Just add additional tabs for all of your project management needs.

It's free-ware for now. If you like it, just refer people to my blog to download it. If you have suggestions on how to improve it, please leave a comment.