To synchronize our calendars in the family we shared our Google calendars. Nice feature that you may not have noticed yet…

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COBIT 5 combines COBIT 4, Val IT, Risk IT into an even more integrated governance framework to help organisations answer the key questions: Are we doing the right things? Are we doing them the right way? Are we getting them done well? And are we getting the benefits?

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Office workers usually have a calendar at work and a private calendar in the cloud they would like to combine. In the past the answer to combining calenders was synchronization (via e.g. USB). Not surprising most people first start looking for ways to synchronize the calendar at work with their calendar in the cloud. And then they find out that security policies of organizations prohibit this type of synchronization. Good news is there are other and even better options.

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Big brother no longer has to spy on people, people bring their intel to big brother voluntarily…

Perhaps time for your personal internet policy.

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For work and personal things to do, I maintain various actions lists.
One for each project, one for this website, one for personal things and one for things I need to do soon (today).
Capturing actions, following up on them and ticking them is part of my daily routine.

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To markup (comment/review) documents on my tablet I use two (paid) apps: Adobe Create PDF and RepliGo Reader.Adobe Create PDF  to create PDF files (if I didn’t save them as PDFs on dropbox earlier) and the RepliGo Reader for its markup features. The markup comments in RepliGo are the same as in Adobe Acrobat and saved in the document.

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A good paced punchy presentation helps you to get your message across.

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 The Emotional Bank Account is a metaphor for the relationship we have with other people.

Our actions result in deposits on or withdrawals (sometimes unintentionally) from the relationship bank account we have with people we work or live with.

In the download section I have added the sheet Emotional Bank Account, which provides a brief summary of actions that result in deposits or withdrawals. I compiled it after a great and fun leadership training with Remco Claassen in 2008, which was largely based on The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephan Covey.

Managing a project portfolio requires balancing resources over operation and changes/projects. Always a challenge because at the end of the resources there are always plans left. To better understand how changes are balanced it helps to classify projects into Project Portfolio Priority Classes. The Project Portfolio Priority Classes is a list of 5 basic categories in a natural order for prioritizing.

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