The latest edition of CIO Magazine has an interesting article titled “Power from Your People” written by Karan Sorenson, VP & CIO at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals. In the article, Sorenson makes an interesting claim: The role of CIO goes far beyond ‘leading IT’…it includes mentoring employees and developing employees throughout the organization. In most [...]
Guest Post: This is Why You Should Change Careers
July 28, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The job hunt
June 30, 2008 By 7 Comments
A friend of mine was applying for an IT position posted on a staffing/recruiting company website. The position was for Director of IT for a Dallas energy company and it seemed like a good fit for her. She went to the staffing agency website, entered in the basic info and uploaded her resume. She was [...]
Why does Work Suck?
June 4, 2008 By 2 Comments
If you’d like to know the answer that question, I have a new book for you to read: “Why Work Sucks” by Cali and Jody. This book (which I haven’t started reading yet…but I plan to start soon) seems to follow the Ricardo Semler approach to organizational developing as outlined in “Maverick” and “Seven Day [...]
Aligning Business and Technology with People
May 20, 2008 By 3 Comments
Mike Schaffner posted an interesting article titled “Hiring the Right / Wrong IT People to Achieve Alignment” in which he pointed at a recent article by Dr. George E. Strouse titled “Are You Hiring the Wrong IT Staff to Achieve Your Alignment Goals?” that appeared on CIO.com. Check both articles out. An excerpt from Dr. [...]
A Thought on Employee Engagement
May 19, 2008 By 6 Comments
Employee engagement has been seen as a ‘buzzword’ for some time but also been touted as something that every organization should focus on. It appears that there is some progress toward engaging employees (see the “Further Reading” below) but of course, many organization’s just don’t “get it”. Instead of talking about how to engage employees [...]
When half an hour is greater than 14.5 hours
May 3, 2008 By 2 Comments
Heard a wonderful story last week from a developer friend of mine and thought I’d share (with commentary of course!). He had taken a full-time job at an organization as a Senior .NET developer and was working an average of 55 hours a week for them. He liked the work he was doing but wasn’t [...]
Flexible working hours revisted
May 1, 2008 By 5 Comments
Management issues had posted another article (see the previous one here and my comments on the topic here) topic titled “Still suspicious of flexible working” that discusses a newly released study by HR consultancy Hewitt Associates. An excerpt follows: The survey of 90 U.S. employers also found that two thirds believed that flexibility increased employee [...]
Flexible Working hours brings gains
April 29, 2008 By 5 Comments
Management Issues recently published an article titled “Flexible working boosts the bottom line” that reports on some very interesting research results that says: …a new study has found that greater flexibility reduces absenteeism, improves employee health and even helps to improve employee commitment. The research report, released by Wake Forest University, provides some very interesting [...]
The “Design me a house” interview question
April 16, 2008 By Leave a Comment
In a previous post titled “The Daily WTF: “Job Interview 2.0?“, I talked about an interviewee’s response to an interviewer asking him to “Design a House” during an interview for a software development position. The original “Design a House” post at The Daily WTF published a story submitted by David J, parts of which are [...]
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