Blog round up, the slightly bigger edition

Because it's been a little while since my last blog round up, this will be a little longer. I've also found some good posts from the project management blogs I've recently added to my reader.

Marc Andreessen, The Pmarca Guide to Career Planning, part 1: Opportunity, blog.pmarca.com
"Career planning = career limiting. ... The second rule of career planning: Instead of planning your career, focus on developing skills and pursuing opportunities." See also part 2 and part 3.

Penelope Trunk, Business schools shift to accommodate the biological clock, Brazen Careerist
"People have been talking in hushed voices of creating faster ways to get through school in order to attract women. And people have been talking off the record about how top schools accept women at an earlier age than they accept men. But Harvard has made it official. In order to attract women into business school they are allowing women in after just two years of work."

Alexander Kjerulf, How NOT to lead geeks, Chief Happiness Officer
"Geeks hate management-speak and see it as superficial and dishonest. Managers shouldn't learn to speak tech, but they should drop the biz-buzzwords. A manager can say "We need to proactively impact our time-to-market" or simply use english and stick to "We gotta be on time with this project"."

Fast Company Now, Madonna's Moves Herald the Future of Music Distribution
"The bottom line: having to abandon DRM will force record labels to think more innovatively, and more comprehensively, about how to market their music. LiveNation's deal with Madonna is a prime case in point."

Steven D. Levitt, Paul Krugman Hits the Blogosphere Running, Freakonomics
"While economists are well aware of the patterns in inequality, there is less agreement concerning the reasons for its ups and downs. Krugman believes that the primary factor driving inequality is politics. I suspect that most economists would disagree."

Martha Lagace, Management Education's Unanswered Questions Q&A with: Rakesh Khurana, HBS Working Knowledge
"Given the rapidity by which our business context is changing, the graduates of business schools should be able to access continuing education. If we really do believe that knowledge is important for effective practice, then it would seem that having some mechanism for connecting graduates to what is relevant would be very important."

Garry Emmons, Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making, HBS Working Knowledge
"Edmondson says this reluctance to speak up stems variously from fears that superiors will not like the idea or that it may appear to criticize the status quo, which most people find reassuringly familiar or dangerous to challenge."

Mike Griffiths, Right-Brain Project Management, Leading Answers
"This conscious search for sense before making plans accepts the vagueness in early projects and embraces the futility of detailed plans made too soon. Rather than moving to planning too early, a focus on motivation and meaning is a great use for early project time."

Lisa Haneberg, When We're Wrong - Recovering from Bad Decisions, Management Craft
"Great managers make more bad decisions than do mediocre managers. Why? Because great managers approach and get active in more situations. Mediocre managers are more likely to sit back and let others make decisions or let situations linger."

Johanna Rothman, "But It’s Just a Small Change", Managing Product Development
"Murphy is one of your team members. Finish this project. Hold a retrospective. Work differently on the next one. But don’t make that one small change."

Gavin Heaton, The Future Isn't What You Think, Servant of Chaos
"This is why we use the term "disruptive" technology for those innovations that change the status quo. It is also why it is essential for us, as marketers, to continue to investigate and play with the technologies that become available"

Seth Godin, Radiohead and the mediocre middle, Seth's Blog
"Most industries innovate from both ends:
* The outsiders go first because they have nothing to lose.
* The winners go next because they can afford to and they want to stay winners.
* It's the mediocre middle that sits and waits and watches."