Hal Beresford

This month, I reconnected with a five books about leadership that remain relevant in 2019.

"Avoid, mitigate, transfer, and accept" are the four generic risk response strategies. Here is a concrete example.

Incidentally, any team captain, manager, or leader is likely to appreciate Kelly’s accounts of communications and interactions among the astronauts and cosmonauts. "Endurance," without promising to be a book on management or leadership, delivers the stuff of real-life experience and wisdom.

Whether you are in charge of meetings or just attending them, you can take steps to level-up your meeting performance. Here are three tools to consider: planning, paper, and problem perception.

Understanding agenda-setting, framing, and priming gives us power and agency in our hypercommunicative world. The fear of the unknown has an upside: concepts become more comfortable when they are named.

Deliver, recommend, and capture, and the support of those functions, summarizes what government contractors do every day.

While this tropical beach scenario is a fiction, its parallels to jobs and careers are real.

Effective teamwork is an eternal key to organizational success. We do more together. Remember the *Omelette Principle*, and be the humble executive.

Today, anyone with an Internet connection who recognizes that their initiative is temporary and resulting in a unique output can grab from a large toolbox of project management knowledge, right off the shelf.