Organization Alignment seems like one of those ‘touchy feely’ things that most technical folks would rather not discuss but it’s actually quite relevant to success in todays technology and project driven organizations. Note: For books on organizational alignement, check out these amazon books: Books on Organizational Alignment. Organizational alignment is the practice of aligning an [...]
Agile or Waterfall…does it matter?
August 24, 2007 By 8 Comments
First off…let me answer the question: Does it matter if I use Agile or Waterfall methodologies in my project? My opinion is no…it doesn’t matter…but there are a few caveats to that answer. Read on. In the software development world, there’s been a debate raging for quite a few years about the ‘best’ way to [...]
Interviewing Tips for Interviewers
August 9, 2007 By 8 Comments
There are a lot of ‘experts’ and ‘how to guides’ giving tips on interviewing and how to interview candidates for a position. Most of these tips are good…but people should also be careful to interject a little bit of personality and common sense into interviewing. See my list of Interviewing Tips for Interviewers at the [...]
Follow-up to Organizational Culture
August 6, 2007 By 6 Comments
I just read an article on Steve Roesler’s blog “All Things Workplace” titled “More Smart People, Change, and Willingness to Learn” that had an interesting twist on a topic that I have blogged about before (namely in Organizational Culture and The Problem(s) with Linear Thinking). In this post, Steve talks relays a story: Joe Kowalski [...]
Organizational Culture
July 2, 2007 By Leave a Comment
In a post last week, I mentioned that I was reading “The Seven Day Weekend” by Ricardo Semler…I am still reading the book (I’m slow OK?) and have been reading chapter seven. This chapter begins with Ricardo discussing an organizations’ culture and the need to be very careful not to create an organization of sameness. [...]
Profits & Morality
June 27, 2007 By 1 Comment
I’ve been reading Ricardo Semler‘s phenomenal book “The Seven Day Weekend” and just ran across this quote: Cash on hand, revenue, and profits are wonderful indeed, but say precious little if taken on their own. …. Profits must be judged as moral or immoral by how they are earned and how they are disposed. – [...]
The Hiring Challenge(s)
June 21, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Hiring and retaining good people has always been a challenge for most companies. Because of this, you’d think that more companies would understand the basic concepts of this challenge but most companies still have no idea how to even begin to overcome it. There are quite a few companies out there that have figured out [...]
Rewarding Time “in Office”
December 13, 2006 By 1 Comment
Don Blohowiak has a new post on his “Leadership. Now.” blog titled “Endurance Reward” where he discusses the ‘old-timer, high salary’ issue within organizations. The main question of the article is: If you exclude assessments of merit and value from determining the worth of longevity, why pay a premium for tenure? I used to see [...]
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