Christoph Jahn

When you look for a great selection of free material around management you can hardly avoid this website. It contains a lot of material from Marshall Goldsmith and you should also check out the blog. The latter contains a lot of posts one could call philosophical and it is one of the best blogs I [...]

The title is a bit dramatic, admittedly, but there are some pitfalls associated with using the BCC feature of email programs. More specifically the combination of BCC and the “Reply to All” functionality can put you in a pretty bad position. And the reason is quite simple:
You put people on the BCC list because you [...]

Meeting minutes sometimes seem to have become a “lost art”. I mean, they are not rocket science, rather a bit dumb. Let me therefore share with you the in my opinion essential points.

If you want to follow only one advice, here it is: Write in a way that allows someone who has not attended the [...]

Exploring Requirements
Donald C. Gause. Dorset House Publishing Company, Incorporated 1989, Hardcover, 320 pages, $22.65

We probably all know that gathering requirements is not as easy as it may sound. And it’s also pretty clear that the issue is not primarily around technical things but communication and people. I can recommended this book (link to amazon.com and amazon.de) to everyone [...]