Category Archives: Team

In a World Focused on Artificial Intelligence, Let’s Reflect on Emotional Intelligence for a Minute

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere right now, the opportunities are endless, and we as humans are tasked with the challenge of outlining the use cases for AI, how the technology should be leveraged, and where the lines should be drawn. … Continue reading

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Swan Song

This blog post is one of the few in my blogging history that has been easy to submit on time. For most of my blog posts, it has been a struggle. More on that in a bit, but first a … Continue reading

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Insights From the International Project Management Day

I recently attended the International Project Management Day (IPM Day), which is hosted annually by the International Institute for Learning (IIL).  The event includes multiple live keynote speaker presentations, additional on demand webinars, discussions forums and more.  Various trending topics … Continue reading

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Gems from a Recent Training Event

I usually take training every year to learn new things and maintain certification in my field of project management. One free training event is called PMXPO, which is hosted by the Project Management Institute (PMI) in March each year. It … Continue reading

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Retirement Party 

Driving into Boston the other day it dawned on me, I’m turning into a crotchety old man. Not quite at the level of my Cape in-laws, who treat going over the Sagamore bridge like planning the lunar landing, but more … Continue reading

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Exploring Endurance

Endurance Noun – en·​dur·​ance | \ in-ˈdu̇r-ən(t)s – the fact or power of enduring an unpleasant or difficult process or situation without giving way. I was recently scanning the headlines one morning on my news feed when a headline caught my attention: AUV … Continue reading

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Making the most of a meeting

Throughout my career at Dana-Farber, I have participated in many initiatives that aim to bring about change and implement improvements within the organization. These projects are usually meeting intensive, as they require extensive planning, thorough coordination, and informed decision making … Continue reading

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Our Dream Team

When we started this blog 10 years ago, one of the goals besides sharing knowledge, stories, and ideas was for the contributors to share something about themselves so that readers would get to know our team and its individual members. … Continue reading

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I Don’t Think We’re in Kansas, Toto

(Author Note: written September 2, 2021) I was in my basement at midnight last night cozied up with the two Sheltie pups, Gracie the cat, and my wife. No, we weren’t binge-watching Bosch on Amazon. And no, this time I … Continue reading

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Best practices for designing business dashboards

For the past few months, a small team within Information Services (IS) that I am a member of has been working on developing a business dashboard for the department. The dashboard will provide its users, in this case IS leadership … Continue reading

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