| # | Title | Further Reading | LTYM # | Moral | Year | Created | Modified | Place | DocType | Ready? | Gender | Category | Questions | | |
| 291 | The Big Rocks | | | To be strategic, you need to put the big rocks in first | 2010 | 07/04/2011 | 09/27/2022 | NetHope | Story | Yes | Female | Strategy | 1) What are the Big Rocks in your department? in your organizatio | 1 | |
| 62 | Giving Back is Strategic | 1) See my article "The changing face of corporate social responsibility," MA High Tech, Sep 4, 2008,
http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/mass-high-tech/2008/09/the-changing-face-of-corporate-social.html
2) See the Pepperidge Farm Letter #241 | 241 | Philanthropy is more than citizenship or retention; it's strategic development | 2004 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | STC | Story | Yes | Female | Strategy | 1) How are you helping to create meaning for your team? 2) What d | 2 | |
| 401 | Where does it hurt? | | | A powerful image can communicate the enormity of the problem | 2015 | 10/08/2016 | 11/20/2016 | IFRC | Story | No | Female | Communication | | 3 | |
| 350 | The "And" | See "The Path," Letter #501 | 501 | The power of the AND is greater than the power of the OR | 2015 | 05/20/2016 | 01/10/2024 | NetHope | Story | No | Female | Conflict | | 4 | |
| 247 | The Bump Into Factor | | | Put the new in the middle of the path | 2002 | 06/02/2008 | 10/27/2023 | STC | Story | Yes | Female | Communication | 1) What is the one thing you want everyone on your team to know? | 5 | |
| 423 | Grants and IT Costs | | | Factor IT costs in each program grant | 2005 | 11/02/2016 | 11/20/2016 | STC | Story | No | Female | Finance | | 6 | |
| 20 | The End of Coding | | | Feature freeze, or the point at which all required features has been added to the system, is the mid-point of the development cycle, not the end-point | 1987 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | DBC | Story | Yes | Female | Project Mgmt | 1) What are the steps required to launch new software in your org | 7 | |
| 451 | Share and Do | | | For collaboration, the agenda must shift from "do, then share" to "share, then do." | 2011 | 12/06/2016 | 10/27/2023 | Bellagio | Story | No | Female | Strategy | | 8 | |
| 40 | The Dinner Invitation | | | A project is a partnership is a relationship | 2000 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | St. Francis | Story | Yes | Female | Project Mgmt | 1) What would indicate customer delight for your customers? 2) Ha | 9 | |
| 388 | The Young Navigator | | | Translate into your audiences' frames of reference | 1962 | 09/23/2016 | 10/27/2023 | West Babylon | Story | Yes | Female | Communication | 1) has this new situation happened before? 2) Is this like someth | 10 | |
| 288 | The Frog and the Train | | | If you don't move, you get hit by the train | 2009 | 12/21/2009 | 11/21/2016 | STC | Story | Yes | Female | Change Mgmt,Strategy | 1) What would you do: Call a train a train? Look before you leap? | 11 | |
| 143 | Bowling and Curtains | See "The Scoreboard," Story #132 | 132 | With a good scoreboard, you don't need feedback from a manager | 1983 | 05/08/2006 | 03/29/2024 | IDC | Story | Yes | Female | People Mgmt,Measurement | 1) How close is the game of bowling to doing projects or other wo | 12 | |
| 426 | Boi Cavalo | | | Push the edge and watch your customers react | 2016 | 11/03/2016 | 11/20/2023 | Sabbatical | Story | Yes | Female | Strategy,Innovation | 1) What are the risks of testing new things on your customers? Wh | 13 | |
| 447 | Tech for Good, Tech for Bad | | | The prophets and the priests of technology can learn from each other | 2011 | 12/03/2016 | 10/27/2023 | IFRC | Story | No | Female | Ethics,Paradigms | | 14 | |
| 296 | The Truck | | | Our #1 goal as nonprofit IT people is to move our missions forward | 2008 | 07/04/2011 | 10/27/2023 | NetHope | Story | Yes | Female | Vision | 1) Can you state how each of your projects contributes to the mis | 15 | |
| 111 | Your work portfolio | | | Reserve time for the strategic | 2006 | 03/28/2006 | 02/08/2024 | STC | Story | No | Female | Strategy | | 16 | |
| 85 | House Calls For Kids Shoes | | | Exceptional service becomes legendary, it gets retold and retold and retold. | 1986 | 02/27/2006 | 10/27/2023 | DBC | Story | Yes | Female | Service | 1) Are there any businesses or services for which you are a custo | 17 | |
| 51 | That Was a Good Meeting | 1) For an interesting parable, see Patrick Lencioni's, Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business, March 4, 2004
2) Compare Agile Programming's 5-15 minute daily stand-up meetings, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-up_meeting
3) For an entertaining poke-in-the-eye, watch the conference call spoof, here: https://youtu.be/DYu_bGbZiiQ | | Without specific action items, the meeting was a waste of time. | 2001 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | STC | Story | Yes | Female | Process Mgmt | 1) What was the worst meeting you ever attended? Why? 2) What was | 18 | |
| 101 | 1,008 Rejections | | | Persistence pays | 1998 | 03/09/2006 | 11/20/2023 | HPMD | Story | Yes | Female | Change Mgmt,People Mgmt,Quality,Persistence | 1. How do you feel after a failure? What do you do about it? 2. D | 19 | |
| 334 | The Refugees and the Pots | | | Need to trust people to cook for themselves | 2014 | 04/16/2015 | 10/27/2023 | IFRC | Story | No | Female | Service | | 20 | |
| 114 | I just lower my standards | | | Do it; don't worry about it! | 1999 | 04/10/2006 | 02/08/2024 | Waterloo Village | Story | No | Female | Process Mgmt | | 21 | |
| 342 | Morning Star | | | Know where your true north is and you will never be lost | 2016 | 05/03/2016 | 10/27/2023 | IFRC | Story | Yes | Female | Values | 1) Have you sometimes lost your way and were worried which way to | 22 | |
| 48 | The Secret to Success | | | The secret to success is getting started. | 2000 | 11/20/2016 | 11/21/2016 | STC | Story | Yes | Female | Strategy | 1) How would you describe your company's or department's strategy | 23 | |
| 8 | Time, Process and People | Frederick Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition), Addison Wesley, 1995. Note especially the Chief Surgical Team. See the discussion of Perpetual Beta on Wikipedia, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_beta | | The tighter the time frame the less concern for process and people | 1981 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | IDC | Story | Yes | Female | Leadership | 1) Can you point to examples where tight deadlines lost the team? | 24 | |
| 28 | Tell Me Three Things | | | A problem is a learning experience | 1992 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | Shark | Story | Yes | Female | People Mgmt | 1) What is the attitude in your team when problems occur? 2) What | 25 | |
| 55 | Legacy Systems: Fish or Cut Bait | Ron Ashkenas, "Kill Your Business Model Before It Kills You," HBR, October 02, 2012. "Years ago, during the dot-com boom, Jack Welch required each of his businesses to go through an exercise that he called “Destroy Your Business.com” in which he asked them how dot.com competitors could possibly put them out of business." | | Legacy systems mean falling behind | 2002 | 02/27/2006 | 02/08/2024 | STC | Story | Yes | Female | Strategy | 1) Which of your organization's systems are holding you back? 2) | 26 | |
| 137 | Phase 3 | See "Managing the Wishlist," Letter #587 | 587 | Defer rather than shoot | 1996 | 05/05/2006 | 10/27/2023 | HPMD | Story | No | Female | Process Mgmt | | 27 | |
| 118 | The New Director | | | Give the new leader his head | 2006 | 04/30/2006 | 02/13/2023 | NetHope | Story | No | Female | Leadership,People Mgmt | | 28 | |
| 21 | The Catered Lunch | | | Team selected awards can be simple, inexpensive and powerful | 1989 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | DBC | Story | Yes | Female | People Mgmt | 1) Would your organization allow such an award? Would you ask, or | 29 | |
| 27 | No Problem Identification Without Recommendation | | | No problem identification without recommendation | 1992 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | Shark | Story | Yes | Female | People Mgmt | 1) What complain mode script have you heard regularly? 2) How wou | 30 | |