Links for August 30, 2009

Social Media and IT Security: Adversaries or Partners? by Steve Radick on Social Media Strategery The T.S. Eliot Guide to Success by Mark McGuinness on Lateral Action Passing the Buck and Ethics by Jeremy Pepper on POP! PR Jots What will be disrupted next? by Jeffrey Phillips on Innovate on Purpose Why Leaders Need Stories: [...]

Agility and 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. Are you agile? I’m not talking about the Agile development methodology…I’m talking about BEING agile.  Are you able to deliver what your organization needs (with less resources)? Build it….or they [...]

Book Review: Trust Agents

Trust Agents

I was lucky enough to receive a pre-release copy of Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith but I wasn’t lucky enough to be able to get through it until now. Have you ever wondered how Chris Brogan became Chris Brogan (outside of [...]

Would you be missed? Would I?

What would happen if you stopped everything you do online? What if you stopped: Blogging Tweeting Facebooking (is that a word?) Linking Commenting Interacting What would happen?  Would anyone miss you? Would your clients?  Your Community? If the answer is ‘yes’…do you know that for sure? If the answer is ‘no’, what can you do [...]

Links for Aug 23, 2009

How to SWOT away Strategic Planning by Steve Neiderhauser The Role of the CTO: Four Models for Success by Bob Gourley on CTOvision.com A Tendency to Blame and an Inability to Confront by Charles H. Green on Trust Matters blog Enterprise 2.0 Does Not Necessarily Mean Power To The People by G. Oliver Young on [...]

Values and The New CIO

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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. As a follow-up to my Goals, Priorities and The New CIO post last week, I wanted to take some time to talk about Values and how they play into the [...]

Links for August 16, 2009

What Happens When Managers Coach? by Steve Roesler on All Things Workplace Trend to Watch: Trust in Business Is Running Out by Eric Beinhocker and Elizabeth Stephenson on HarvardBusiness.org It’s OK to Say “I Don’t Know” by  Arun Manansingh on A CIO’s Voice Are You a Member of the Team? by Lisa DiTullio on UCSC [...]

Goals, Priorities and The New CIO

Goals, Priorities and 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. It as if we’re more hearing about businesses doing more with less. In the world of IT, you definitely hear this.  Budgets are slashed or frozen.  Layoffs are happening.  The [...]

Book Review: Two Weeks to a Breakthrough

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I received the book Two Weeks to a Breakthrough: How to Zoom Toward Your Goal in 14 Days or Less from Lisa Haneberg a few weeks ago as a gift from Lisa (thank you Lisa!). This is an awesome book.  Go buy it now. You still here? Ok…I’ll tell you more. Unlike many other books [...]

Links for August 9, 2009

The Value Every Business Needs to Create Now by Umair Haque on HarvardBusiness.org Three Key Principles when Leading without Authority by George Ambler on The Practice of Leadership The Dance of Trust by Charles H. Green on Trust Matters Web 2.0 changes IT economics but it changes leadership economics more by Mark McDonald on Gartner‘s [...]