Technology, Strategy, People and Projects
What’s your focus? Have you ever stopped to ask yourself this question? What are you focused on in your life or your job? What’s your focus for the future? It’s a simple question but a difficult one to answer for most people. Ask this question of 10 of your coworkers and you’ll probably get most [...]
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 completed reading The Upside of Turbulence: Seizing Opportunity in an Uncertain World. Great book. Go buy it…the link above is an affiliate link or just go grab one [...]
I was lucky enough to get a pre-release copy of Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation by IDEO CEO Tim Brown through the Amazon Vine program….and I’m glad I did. If you take a look at some of the Pre-release copy reviews of this book on Amazon you’ll see a [...]
2009 is half over and its been a pretty good year so far. What’s transpired this year? In February, I put my consulting practice on hold to join the Boy Scouts of America full time after working with them for 1.5 years as a consultant. Previous to starting full-time, I’d been leading the Sitecore Content [...]
I just finished reading The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything and have to say that I really enjoyed it. While the book spends a little too much time in the realm of ‘celebrity worship’ (i.e., there are LOT of celebrities that have found ‘the element’ apparently), the book is still a very good [...]
You’re doing it wrong! I hate when people tell me that. Who are they to tell me how to do something? OK…OK…there are times when ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ make sense. Driving a car. Flying a plane. Connecting electric lines. Things like this do have right and wrong ways. If I’m taking a picture, who’s to [...]
Mark McGuinness over at Lateral Action has a great post titled “Is Lateral Thinking Necessary for Creativity?“…this post is a well thought out argument against the idea that lateral thinking is required for creativity. I won’t go into the details of Mark’s post but I wanted to highlight this passage: He [Robert Weisberg] argues that [...]
My wife just asked me what my resolutions were for 2009. I normally don’t do ‘resolutions’ but the question, and the many blog posts about resolutions, started me thinking. What is it about the changing of the ‘year’ that gets people into the mindset of making resolutions to do things differently in the ‘new year’? [...]
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