Your child is going to Kindergarten you are going to leave your child’s education and care in the hands of a professional that has a goal to reach at the end of the school year prepare the children for 1st Grade. The teacher will be in charge of twenty children ages 5 to 6 with that many kids some ground rules need to be set so that everyone in the class knows the expectations.

The teacher gives the parents and children a tour of the classroom and playground to familiarise them and presents the class rules.

The Project Kickoff meeting is when you assemble all your team members with stakeholders in attendance watching you layout how you are going to run the project. Think of the stakeholders as parents they want the project team members to succeed.

The project manager presents the project to the team showing the project timeline and tasks assigned to the team. The expectations of the project manager is conveyed to the team that weekly status meeting will be held on Fridays be prepared to report your status and if you cannot attend make an effort to email it by 5pm. I’m keeping it simple to illustrate the point I’m making on what team members are responsible for.

Whether you are teaching Kindergarten or running a project you need to set the ground rules and expectations from the beginning and develop and refine it along the way. Setting up expectations and ground rules will avoid any assumptions and make everyone’s job easier by knowing what is expected of you.

Google+ is hot right now and it has not even gone public. It’s not perfect but I have to say that it has allot of potential to threaten Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Who the winner will be only time will tell. I have a sneaky suspicion that G+ is going for it all once they release the app to everyone. They are very smart on the approach they are taking to have members invited only, that technique will allow them to do capacity planning better and make projections on what they need to avoid system outages like Twitter for example.

My view on LinkedIn CEO’s silly comment that no one has time for G+ is he better wake-up before LinkedIn joins MySpace and becomes LinkedOut.

LinkedIn has a outdated policy on how to connect with other connections. You can connect to only people you know. Some user are flagging invites to connect as spam, that’s not spam unless you get hit up everyday with an invite from the same person. Those users need to get real to not flag invites as spam, they seem to be the type that jump under the bed when they get an invite from a person that they don’t know. These people should feel complimented that someone found you interesting and want’s to reach out and make a connection and in return you flag them for spamming. Just ignore them or send and email back saying thank you for reaching out but I do not want to make a connection. Don’t jump under a bed and hide.

My take on Facebook and Twitter is they need to follow G+ closely and continue to improve their products.

Drake
aka @iTheDrake on Twitter

My heart goes out to all the unemployed and recent unemployed. I know some people who recently lost their job. I dedicate this post to them.

Just when you think you are doing OK and set for life, life throws a sucker punch at you. Just get up and evaluate the situation. You will feel anger and say why me what happened I did not see this coming or you did see it coming but did not want to accept it. Just keep your energy positive now and stay focused on how you will handle the situation. Network with all your friends and former co-workers to get the word out that you are available. Never give up no matter how discouraging it gets. Every time you take a fall getup and keep on trying. Tenacity is the key to your success. Just keep on chasing your dreams. Dreams do come true never stop believing.

A tip career wise: Always reinvent yourself and keep current and remember nothing is forever at times, it will prepare you better to handle sucker punches when life gives you one.

Stay positive everything has a purpose in life. Find it!!!

Drake
aka @iTheDrake on Twitter
Freelance writer for examiner.com