I had an opportunity to network with Executives and Managers from Southern Ontario prior to my dinner presentation to the PMI chapter members. As we sat down for dinner, the topic at our table shifted to the books we had read recently. Before I volunteered my favorite book, Thomas, an IT manager sitting beside me asked if we had read the “World is Flat,” authored by his namesake, the New York Times columnist. At he began to describe his opinion of the book, the anecdotes and illustrations, the discussion became really animated.
I was tempted to pitch-in with my two cents…talk about the implications for hi-tech professionals and managers, about my review on Amazon, but decided to reserve my viewpoints – and energy -- for my after-dinner presentation. And thanks to Thomas… and Friedman, I got a good segway to introduce the topic.
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Prof Ernie Ferguson recently invited me to speak with Graduate Students of M.S. in Applied Computer Science at Northwest Missouri State University. Given that I am currently in Toronto with other travel and work schedules, we decided to leverage Videoconferencing (VC) for the session on Project Management...for today (15th Nov)
Thanks to VC gurus at both ends, the session went smoothly without glitches.
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I am looking forward to speaking with managers and executives in Toronto next week during the Networking and Workshop Meeting. It is being organized by PMI's GT ISLIG.
More about the event and my presentation at online at gtislig.org
