My good friend, and partner at CIOEssentials.com, Gene Delibero asks a few interesting questions in a post titled “Certification: No Guarantee of Competency – But it Can’t Hurt” on CIOE.
In this post Gene highlights the pros/cons of IT Certifications and asks these questions:
Do you rely on IT certification when hiring? What has your experience been, [...]
I just finished reading “Managing” by Henry Mintzberg.
Great book.
What’s so great about it? It provides a good reminder that being a good manager is just as important as being a good leader.
Mintzberg does an excellent job of bringing the importance of managing well to the forefront.
Like I said…good book. Buy it today at amazon (affiliate [...]
I’ve got a few pet peeves. Linear Thinking is one of them. Another one is talking about doing something but never doing it.
I’m not talking about ‘not following through’ on things. That’s a performance issue and one that can be addressed with some coaching and basic management skills.
What I’m talking about are those folks (or [...]
This is a short one….lots going on this week.
I got a lot of great feedback on a post I wrote titled “Consultants – Do we need them?“. In that post I argue that consultants are necessary…not a necessary evil mind-you…but a necessity for modern day IT organizations.
One of the lines of that struck a chord [...]
I ran across an interesting post today titled “Why you don’t need Social Media Consultants” on the Brains on Fire Blog. The main thesis of the post is: “social media consultants provide little value…they do nothing more than you already know how to do so you don’t need them”.
In the article, Spike Jones says:
If you [...]
Last week I wrote about “Turbulence, IT & The New CIO” and discussed the need to embrace agility and speed in order to address the turbulence that we see in business today. In order to be agile, I mentioned the OODA (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) model for use in helping keep agility at the front [...]
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.
I just read a ‘call for papers’ from Cutter IT Journal with the title “The Great Recession Fallout: Will CIOs Be Elevated or Exterminated?” It doesn’t look like they’ve posted this [...]
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.
So you want to be a leader? Great..hope you get there. Will you be willing to do those difficult jobs a leader has to do? Will you be willing to say [...]
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 failure [...]
“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 Design Element in [...]
