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Self-Management
You Aren’t Special............................... 18
Don’t Skip Vacations for the Project.................... 38
Provide Regular Time to Focus...................... 40
Project Management Is Problem Management............. 42
Value Results, Not Just Effort........................ 58
Keep Your Perspective............................ 64
We Have Met the Enemy...and He Is Us.................. 70
To Thine Own Self Be True.......................... 74
Build Teams to Run Marathons, Not Sprints. .............. 96
Don’t Fall into the “Not Invented Here” Syndrome. .......... 112
Speed Is Life; More Is Better........................ 116
Building the Morale on Your Team.................... 118
Serve Your Team............................... 122
Important, but Not Urgent......................... 158
Recognize the Value of Team Morale. ................. 166
Don’t Always Be “The Messenger”.................... 172
We Are Project Managers, Not Superheroes.............. 176
You Are Not in Control. .......................... 186
Share the Vision. ............................... 188
True Success Comes with a Supporting Organization. ....... 190
Web Development
Scrolling Through Time............................ 20
Size Matters................................... 28
A Voice from the Other Side......................... 62
Favor the Now Over the Soon....................... 114
The Web Points the Way, for Now.................... 182
9.7 Reasons I Hate Your Website..................... 194