Project Management Is Leadership

Those of you who use or teach Project Management and Presentation Skills as business skills might be interested in this presentation by Brian Herman.

Brian was my manager for a while in my past life. I have a very high regard for him, and when I read about his presentation in Alec Muffett's blog I took a look. Brian has an excellent lighthearted presentation style and a wonderful way with minimalist presentation slides. He gets the point across in a way which I find inspiring, it certainly holds the attention in a way that many presenters do not.

I recommend that you take a look. The whole presentation takes about 20 minutes so make yourself a cup of tea before you start.

Any Noun Can Be Verbed...

... and it would appear that adjectives can be adverbed, too!

There is a furore in the UK this week following an initiative by a marketing company to provide information to advertisers by, in effect, snooping on the content downloaded by web users.
See here for information.

The Foundation for Information policy Research (FIPR) is a think-tank which defends the rights of users against intrusive activities by companies and government. It has responded to this proposal, in my view quite properly, by pointing out the areas of UK and EU law which forbid such snooping.

Sadly the English language is a minor casualty in this skirmish. The following text made me cringe:

[Regarding consent] Moreover, in many cases it is clear that any such consent is expressly or impliedly negatived.

It is bad enough to make a verb from negative, to make an adjective from implied is just too much! Aside from that it is an example of clear English used by lawyers to make a legal point.