How do You Deal with Your Vacation Reminders?

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This is the best vacation reminder I ever see! It’s just brilliant:

I am currently out of the office on vacation.

I know I’m supposed to say that I’ll have limited access to email and won’t be able to respond until I return — but that’s not true. My blackberry will be with me and I can respond if I need to. And I recognize that I’ll probably need to interrupt my vacation from time to time to deal with something urgent.

That said, I promised my wife that I am going to try to disconnect, get away and enjoy our vacation as much as possible. So, I’m going to experiment with something new. I’m going to leave the decision in your hands:

  • If your email truly is urgent and you need a response while I’m on vacation, please resend it to interruptyourvacation@xxxxx.com and I’ll try to respond to it promptly.
  • If you think someone else at ‘my company’ might be able to help you, feel free to email my assistant, Fiona (fiona@xxxxx.com) and she’ll try to point you in the right direction.

· Otherwise, I’ll respond when I return…

Warm regards,
Josh

Could you write a reminder better or more creative than that? If so, share your ideawith us in the comments box.

Great ‘checklist for an unlived life’ by Cultural Offering

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Cultural Offering just write a great checklist with precious tips for a better way of life. A sample:

 The right moment.
2.    Our big break.
3.    Next season.
4.    The rain to stop.
5.    Cooler weather.
6.    The kids to grow up.
7.    A raise.

What we’re waiting for? Thanks, Kurt.

UPDATE [2:47AM - 9/1/2011] The Cultural Offering Blog completed four years of existence last August 8th.Congratulations, Kurt, to help make this world a little better place.

‘Hope is Our Most Important Strategy’

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Great article by PM Hut. An excerpt:

A few years ago, a senior manager called me. “We have a project in trouble. We started off hopeful, but now it looks impossible.” I asked a few questions, and discovered they had never done a project like this before. It was bigger, in a different language, on a new platform, with a shorter schedule. No, they hadn’t arranged for any training (for anyone), but they were hoping they could complete the project. After all the entire fortunes of the company were riding on it.

I recommend reading the full text, which can be found here!

Selling Hope!

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 I totally agree with Hug Macleod: if you can sell hope, people will buy anything.

Many times, this is exactly what we do when we act as project manager: we sellhope to the people! For our customers, the hope that the project will finish within the agreed time and within estimated costs; to the project team, hope that they will have the necessary resources at the right time, in order to carry out their workwithout major problems. At last, we sell hope that the whole process is under ourstrict control over.

Just to be working with the expectations and hopes of those who trust in us is that we need, more than ever, we are aware of the great responsibility that exists in the post of project manager. Think about it!