This is a guest post by Heather Johnson, who writes on the subject of how to become a nurse. She invites your feedback at heatherjohnson2323 at gmail dot com. It crosses your mind every morning as you lay in your bed right after your alarm wakes you up: I hate my job. This is not [...]
Reasons for Resisting Change
July 23, 2008 By 8 Comments
Peter Vajda has a great post over on Slow Leadership titled “Why People Resist Change” that is well worth the time to read. Peter argues that the reasons people resist change is that they are ‘told’ to change….rather than being ‘asked’ to change. He writes: What’s the most common process for introducing change in our [...]
Presenting at the 2nd Annual Project Management Symposium at UTD
July 1, 2008 By 2 Comments
I’ve been holding off on this announcement until I finished the paper (mainly to make sure I actually finished it!). I’ll be speaking at University of Texas at Dallas’ 2nd Annual Project Management Symposium on August 18-19 in Richardson, TX. I’ll be presenting in the Project Management Methods – A (Track 3) on August 18 [...]
Information Technology Challenges
June 26, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I asked the following question on LinkedIn earlier this week and received some very insightful responses: What are the top challenges in IT organization’s today? In reading the various magazines, blogs and websites out there (CIO.com, etc) on the subject, I’ve come to the conclusion that there are many many issues facing IT groups today. [...]
Information Technology Leadership & Alignment
June 2, 2008 By 10 Comments
If you’re in business today (especially in the Information Technology space), you’ve no doubt heard of the need to ‘align IT to the business’ or something similar…you may have even heard me talk about it (see here and here). The majority of my time in my consulting practice revolves around the idea of alignment and [...]
Employee Engagement – not just a buzzword
January 21, 2008 By 6 Comments
“Employee Engagement” is one of those ‘buzzwords’ that you hear thrown about quite a bit…but this is a buzzword that should be carefully thought about by every organization. A recent survey, reported on by Management Issues, has some very interesting results pertaining to Employee Engagement. The article, titled “Getting to the Heart of the Disengagement [...]
Networking is more than technology
November 28, 2007 By 4 Comments
The last few years has seen the rise of Internet based social networking. Web sites like Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn and others have done a lot for networking but it seems like a lot of people think that networking stops as soon as you ‘connect’ with someone. Charles Green at the Trust Matters Blog had a [...]
Resource Diversity & Immobility Simplified
November 8, 2007 By 2 Comments
I wanted to take some time to simplify my discussion of Resource Diversity and Resource Immobility from my post titled “Competitive Advantage and the Resource Based View of the Firm.” If you’ll recall, Resource Diversity: pertains to whether a firm owns a resource or capability that is also owned by numerous other competing firms, then [...]
Competitive Advantage and the Resource Based View of the Firm
November 5, 2007 By 12 Comments
As a follow up to my previous post titled Competitive Advantage – The Human Capital Approach, I wanted to take a second to talk a little bit about the Resource Based View of the firm that I mentioned in the previous post. Before I continue, if you are interested in this topic, definitely take a [...]
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