My Favorite Blogs To Write

One of my goals for 2023 is to write more LinkedIn blogs, specifically one blog a week at a minimum. I cannot promise I will be as prolific or engaging as Michael Santarcangelo , Adam McMath , Mike Miller , Ron Sharon , Olivia Rose?? , Jerich Beason , George Kamide , AJ Yawn , or Troy Fine , but I do take inspiration from all of them and many others and hope I can also inform and inspire others the way they do.

Because I did not write too many posts in 2022, I wanted to reflect on the posts that brought me the most joy to write and that I think are still relevant today in 2023, and share some of those insights again here.

1. My most favorite blog and still my most popular output on LinkedIn is Project Management Lessons from Gandalf. Gandalf is simply awesome and every people and project manager can learn a lot from him, such as rolling his sleeves, getting all stakeholders involved, not waiting for decision paralysis and jumping into work, sharing the same hardships as his team, and not thinking he is better or smarter than others. It probably helps that Gandalf spent over two thousand years of perspective walking Middle Earth, plus the nine to ten thousand years as a spirit in Valinor.
2. My second favorite blog is the continuation on Gandalf in Part 2, because who could get enough of Gandalf? After all, he can be a friend to everyone, understand each team member's skills and variances, leads when the work becomes hardest to take on the work that only he can deliver, and is willing to sacrifice himself and his reputation for the success of the group.
3. I will have to take up another Lord of the Rings theme for my third favorite blog - Risk Management in Middle Earth, because, you guessed it, I love Gandalf and Tolkien. Also, because we should all understand the basic concepts of risk management as we can apply it to our personal lives, not just to our business. It is important to know that we are always making decisions on how we treat risky things in our lives, whether we know it or not, whenever we accept, avoid, reduce, or transfer risks.
4. For my fourth favorite blog, I will have to go with Adding Diversity to Our Workforce, because Star Wars, and because the problems we face in the world are too complex and too difficult, and require out of the box thinking and the best minds across all populations and diverse thinking. We also need polymaths who can breach gaps between disciplines and can relate to different themes, so we are not stuck in silos and producing solutions that have no practical value or do not solve the underlying problem, only bandage the bleeding. In addition, research tells us that companies with more diverse boards and workforce are more successful in the long term.
5. And my fifth favorite blog is on Volunteering, because no matter where you are in life, you can always help someone else, or at least be an encouragement or an inspiration for them, and also support your own mental health as helping others is one of the most positive things you can do, as it makes you feel good about yourself, connects you with society and other people, stimulates the brain, and forces you to learn.

Hope you have enjoyed this mini-blog, and please let me know what type of things I should cover on future posts. Here is a happy and successful 2023 for everyone!

p.s. I expect many of my future blogs will be related to #compliance in some fashion. I followed Olivia Rose?? 's mantle of mentoring via Cyversity and will be running a weekly GRC training sessions on Cyversity the month of March. As I build out more content for the training sessions I get even more ideas for blog posts, so I hope you like compliance, and if not, I will make sure you do when I am done blogging about it. :-)