Introduction

Dear Fissure Friends,

 

I always try to find a link between the articles included in the newsletter and something of "interest" going on in the world today. Being from Minnesota, I’m tempted to find a tie-in with the cruise scandal involving the Minnesota Vikings football team. But that ship has sailed, sunk and is best left where it is. I will however, share my solution for what I consider is one of the major problems with professional sports today. You can decide if the solution makes sense (and whether it would have prevented the Vikings cruise scandal) and if it could be applied to the business world as well. If your interested, click the link to "Jesse's Solution".

 

Susan Heidorn, one of our guides and a current Ph.D. student was working on an article for this issue when her computer hard drive crashed and rather than wait for the return of her computer (there is a risk management learning here), I decided to fill in for her. I’m cheating a little, because I had committed to writing a blog article for Dick Richards’ web site on genius. So being a good project manager I saw an opportunity to turn a negative (missing Susan’s article) into a positive (using my article on genius for this newsletter). What Dick calls genius, others might call passion. He believes we all have a unique inner talent that when in alignment with what we are doing and how we are living, makes our world better. There is an interesting story behind how I identified my genius, and it is also a story of coincidence.

 

Geof Lory deals with Consciousness and Courage this month. How does that relate to project management you ask? Control. Of course he uses his daughters and how they need less control as they mature to help us understand and relate to the topic.

 

Our upcoming public workshops are in the left hand panel - our computer simulation based workshops are an effective and fun way to learn AND EARN PDUs. Make sure you also check out what’s happening at Fissure (Fissure News).

 

Thanks for reading and have a great quarter,

 

Jesse Freese

Fissure, President