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- Improve critical skills through gaming
- I have written numerous times in my blogs about critical skills that managers need to be successful and to enhance their careers (see Soft skills in a hard world). In these blogs I often talk about obtaining these skills through traditional methods such as studying and practicing. While...
- Blog posts 2008-02-09
- What to do when you have to lay off staff
- I have been seeing that word quite a bit in the papers these days and frankly it bothers me. Having been the victim of a reduction in force, I know all too well the pain of sudden unemployment and all that can go with it. However this column...
- Blog posts 2008-02-02
- Freedom of choice?
- Who determines the upgrade strategy in your organization when it comes to software? If your answer is anything but the vendor or the market, I suggest that you rethink your answer. Although I would like to say that we have complete choice in how and when we upgrade,...
- Blog posts 2008-01-26
- End user training � Whose job is it?
- A $5000 dollar electronic "smart" board is accidently ruined when an adjunct instructor unknowingly damages it beyond repair when he writes on it with a dry erase marker. Whose fault is it? Investigation into the incident reveals that the instructor was assigned to the room to teach a...
- Blog posts 2008-01-21
- Interview coaching - don't tell the employer he has wants
- My brother in-law has been interviewing for a new position within his organization lately and he called me up last week for help with a particular question - "How would you improve the operations in our area?" This is one of those "Danger Will Robinson!" questions, so I thought...
- Blog posts 2008-01-13
- Brand new year - Same old pet peeves
- Well it's New Year Resolution time and for a fleeting minute I thought about making one. It was going to be entitled, "I'm not going to let these things get to me this year." But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it wasn't...
- Blog posts 2008-01-06
- Job satisfaction is a balancing act.
- A friend and colleague of mine just announced his resignation as CIO of his organization and has accepted a sweet position as CIO of another similar organization (same industry) where not only does he report directly to the CEO but has triple the IT budget. I am extremely happy...
- Blog posts 2007-12-16
- IT: Caught between a rock and a hard place.
- I was reading a book the other night that had a couple of pages devoted to change. After reflecting on the information, I started thinking more about the dual demands that are placed on IT by organizations. The first demand is to be a utility. By this...
- Blog posts 2007-12-09
- Compliance Woes
- If you read many IT publications you are sure to come across more than one article on compliance woes - the hardships that organizations go through when having to meet what many usually call "unfunded mandates." Since I have sat, and continue to sit, on both sides of the fence...
- Blog posts 2007-12-02
- Tuning up your perspective.
- Since I am writing this pre-Thanksgiving and you are probably reading this while the leftover turkey is still good, I thought I would take the time to appreciate some of the things in my work world that I may have in common with you. We often take for granted...
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- Preparing for the audit boogeyman.
- The hooded figure approached the door ever so slowly, as if he wanted each step to cause insufferable pain. As he reached his bony hand to ring the bell for admittance into the sanctum, his scythe reflected the intermittent lighting emanating from a defective overhead bulb. Somewhere in the distance,...
- Blog posts 2007-11-18
- Does seniority equal entitlement?
- I was speaking with a colleague the other day about a recent reorganization we were aware of at another company that essentially replaced the head of a department with that person's subordinate. My colleague noted that was a shame because the person demoted (he wasn't let go) had seniority over...
- Blog posts 2007-11-11
- Why Human Capital Management is insulting
- Human Capital Management. Do those words irritate you? Perhaps I'm in a prickly mood but I just received a flyer in which a company offers to train me to do a better job in Human Capital Management because as a CIO I must obviously suck at it - or at...
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- Are you having an "energy crisis?"
- Last week, I wrote on the lifestyle and consequences of being an "always on" employee -- prompted by an article that I read in CIO magazine called, "The Extreme CIO." I also came across an article from the October issue of Harvard Business Review entitled, "Manage Your Energy, Not Your...
- Blog posts 2007-10-28
- Are you always on?
- I just finished reading a very interesting article in CIO magazine that details the condition of the "always on" employee. Although the article, "The Extreme CIO," focuses strictly on CIOs, its message can apply to all IT workers. The "always on" individual works 70 to 80 hour weeks, is often...
- Blog posts 2007-10-21
- Managing yourself through a challenge
- I often write in this blog about managing others through problems or crises because it's part of the day-to-day experience as a manager/leader. But what about managing yourself? You've probably found yourself at some point faced with a project or task that you have to tackle, but for whatever reason...
- Blog posts 2007-10-13
- Why I passed on a free 32-inch LCD/Plasma TV
- I attended a conference last week in which I was a host, a presenter, and an attendee. I am part of the board of directors for this conference so I had a little more work to do than a regular conference attendee. I tell you this in order to set...
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- Reporting to a board = walking the plank?
- I was watching We Are Marshall last night, the movie about the loss of the Marshall University Football Team in a 1970 plane crash, and the ending left me a little flat. Not because of the tremendous courage it took to get a team back on the field the following...
- Blog posts 2007-09-21
- Getting to the bottom of a buzzword: What is Web 2.0?
- Are you a Dilbert fan? I find his strips not only hilarious but they often hit close to home. It's as if Scott Adams (the creator of Dilbert) has a cube in every office in America. This explains why so many people relate to his comic strip and his immense...
- Blog posts 2007-09-15
- How to transform your organization through IT
- I just finished reading an article on the top 100 CIOs deemed "transformers" who changed their organizations through IT. The purpose of the article, besides recognizing these accomplishments, was to gather lessons learned from those CIOs. You are probably already familiar with them -- closer integration with the customer,...
- Blog posts 2007-09-09
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