Project Success and Failure and The New CIO

The CIO's role in Project Success and/or Failure

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. Earlier this week, I listened to an interesting webinar hosted by Michael Krigsman and led by Chris Curran.  The topic of the webinar was the CIO’s role in success or [...]

Book Review: Toy Box Leadership

I just finished Toy Box Leadership: Leadership Lessons from the Toys You Loved as a Child…somewhat flawed but a good book nonetheless. Flawed may be a bad word to use for this book.  The idea is a great one (more on it later) but the narratives about the lessons could have been stronger.   In addition, [...]

Links for July 26 2009

“None” is Not a Social Media Strategy by Chris Curran on CIO Dashboard Web 3.0 Is Coming – Are CIOs Ready? bt Dr. Jim Anderson on The Accidental Successful CIO Blame storming – one of the signs of weak management by Mark McDonald on BLT: Business Leadership and Technology “Social Learning” Will Be a Core [...]

Book Review: Succession, Are You Ready?

I just finished reading Succession: Are You Ready? (Memo to the Ceo) by Marshall Goldsmith. While the subject was interesting, I think the audience for this book is extremely narrow for it to be of much interest to a large audience. When I first noticed this book, I thought that there might be some information [...]

Defining "Right" – The New CIO Series

Defining Right - The challenge facing The New CIO

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. We’ve all heard the ‘get the right people on the bus‘ analogy from Jim Collin’s, but have you ever stopped to think about whether the bus is  heading in the [...]