This is a guest post from Michael Sebastian, PhD. Find out more information about Michael here. Anger, fear, depression and fatigue. These are the feelings of many employees today. And those emotions don’t get checked in at the door. A bad economy has many employees feeling stressed out and apathetic about their jobs, resulting in [...]
10 Habits of Highly Effective IT Professionals
February 26, 2009 By 7 Comments
Are you looking to improve your IT skills? Are you a business leader looking to make your IT organization more effective? If so, take a look at Simon Stapleton’s eBook titled “The 10 Habits of Highly Effective IT Professionals.” What are the 10 Habits? Glad you asked. They are: Openly Share Knowledge Coach Others Learn [...]
Are you a leader or just loud?
February 24, 2009 By 4 Comments
Sometimes I wonder about our leaders. These leaders may be your country’s leaders or they may be your teacher. Perhaps your VP or your CEO. I think about these people and wonder if they really are leaders…or are they just loud? Take a second to think about your organization. Is there someone there that you [...]
Links for Feb 22 2009
February 22, 2009 By 5 Comments
Success without failure is impossible. . . by Alexander Muse on Texas Startup Blog Top 10 Outsourcing Trends by Small Businesses in 2009 by Amit Mullerpattan on Small Business Trends CMOs Don’t Get Customer Service??? Yikes! by Ted Mininni on Marketing Prof’s Daily Fix Software Estimating by Glen Alleman on Herding Cats Great leadership is [...]
Book Review: The Three Laws of Performance
February 16, 2009 By 7 Comments
I received an email a few weeks ago asking if I would be interested in reviewing the new book from Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan titled “the three laws of performance”. I jumped at the opportunity….free book right? Well…I’d happily pay twice the list price for this book and so should you…but click over to [...]
Links for Feb 15 2009
February 15, 2009 By 3 Comments
Help IT Run a Less-Risky Business by Susan Cramm on HarvardBusiness.org Why Social Media Will Not Get You A Job In A Recession by Jason Falls on Social Media Explorer The ROI of Community-based Support by Bill Odell on The Helpstream Blog Welcome To 2009: Does IT Matter This Year? by Dr Jim Anderson on [...]
Leadership lessons learned from Photography
February 13, 2009 By 8 Comments
Over on my photography blog, onefourPhotography, I wrote a post titled “Photographs are taken by people – not technology” that got me to thinking. I know…its a dangerous thing to do In the aforementioned article, I talk about the difference between taking a snapshot (what I do) and taking a photograph (what my wife does). [...]
Connecting IT with Business – The Go Betweens
February 10, 2009 By 3 Comments
Oracle’s Profit magazine has a nice article titled “The Go Betweens: Ten Tips for Connecting Information Technology with the Business” has some excellent tips for closing the IT – Business gap. The ten tips are: Create strategic discussions between business and IT Include specialists from all relevant areas Choose team members with great care Make [...]
Links for Feb 8 2009
February 8, 2009 By 5 Comments
Inspiration Without Action is Wasted Time by C.C. Chapman on Reality Bitchslap IT Doesn’t Have To Be Annoying by Mike Schaffner on Beyond Blinking Lights and Acronyms How to Translate Vendor Talk into Plain English by Jeremiah Owyang on Web Strategy by Jeremiah The Goal is the Interaction by Chris Brogan on ChrisBrogan.com Rebuilding Trust: [...]
Simon Stapleton on “The Industrialization of IT”
February 5, 2009 By 2 Comments
Received an email yesterday from Simon Stapleton (blog and RSS Feed) with links to a few older articles he wrote about a concept that he calls “The Industrialization of IT”. He asked if I thought they would be of value to my readers. I skimmed the articles and immediately responded with something to the [...]
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