Author Archives: Jim Stroup

Roundup: Thankful for the web

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Jim Stroup

As an American living overseas, it can be difficult to keep in touch with the thinking and mood of my home country, and of what elsewhere in the world is attracting attention there. But the internet sure helps in this regard. My daily routine includes a scan of many more sources than are reflected below, not to mention a regular assortment of high-quality blogs. But these are some of the most striking examples of the value of the web I’ve found in the past several weeks . . . Continue reading →

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Lotus Organizer

Posted on November 20, 2010 by Jim Stroup

The first office suite that I used on a PC (other than my fondly-remembered Commodore Plus/4, which put me through my final push at college) is Lotus Smart Suite. It included an integrated organizer called Lotus Organizer, which was later spun off as an individual product. While it is still possible to find and purchase Lotus Organizer . . . Continue reading →

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Keeping it together

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Jim Stroup

It was the arrival and popularization of paper-based daily planners that marked the beginning of the rapidly developing movement to centralize all the key activities of our lives – to rationalize, integrate, track, and control them. . . Continue reading →

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Keeping track

Posted on October 17, 2010 by Jim Stroup

When I first began my military career, it was common among us to use a single hardcover green notebook to record all notes, taskings, background information, and the like from meetings for later reference when organizing one’s personal responsibilities in the undertaking at hand. This was helpful enough, and served a very useful role as a sort of professional journal, as events moved on from one endeavor to another, guiding and informing our specifically defined individual roles in each one. . . Continue reading →

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Artifacts and attitudes

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Jim Stroup

Initially frustrated by the periodic desire to write about books that don’t warrant reviews on the Managing Leadership Blog, the idea for the current site began to take form. As time went by, the scope took at once a more comprehensive and more coherent shape, and the decision was made to go ahead. So, here it is: Managing Meanings. . . Continue reading →

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