Entries by Bonnie Biafore

Learning Lessons on Leadership

April 6, 2012 in /by

The first thing I think of when I think about leadership: I was a bad employee. I wasn’t a bad employee because I did bad work. On the contrary, I did great work and customers loved me. But I always had problems with the management in the companies I worked for. I was told I had a bad attitude — and I did. (Since I’m a terrible follower, I had better learn to be a good leader.) Then, I read Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and realized the source of my “problems.”

Project Conference 2012: Drinking from the Firehose

March 25, 2012 in /by

My first experience with  “drinking from a fire hose” was in college. The three days I spent in Phoenix at Project Conference 2012 brought back those memories. For me, the conference was a whirlwind of attending presentations, meeting exhibitors, catching up with old friends, and meeting new ones. I had good intentions of blogging during […]

From Peep Show to Full Monty

March 5, 2012 in , /by

I’ve never been to a peep show. Really. But I imagine they’re a lot like authoring a book (or other projects for that matter). Of course, a peep show costs a few bucks whereas the price I pay to write a book is hundreds of hours of my life and a savage brain pummeling. During […]