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Feb 23, 2007
Shadow IT (aka Doing What IT Won’t/Can’t)

Shadow IT has been defined by George Spafford in his article titled The Dangers that Lurk Behind Shadow IT as: ...groups providing information technology

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Feb 22, 2007
Webinar on Service-Oriented Project Management

Mindjet is hosting a webinar about Service-Oriented Project Management with Jerry Manas on March 7, 2007. More information is available at the Mindjet

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Feb 21, 2007
A good definition of Strategy

This definition is from Rob Millard at the Adventure of Strategy Blog in a recent post. Successful strategy is not about a grand plan. Rather, it is an

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Feb 19, 2007
Silence is deadly

Many other bloggers (Hal Macomber for one) have already discussed this report, but I wanted to say a quick word about it as well. The report, from the

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Feb 15, 2007
David Maister on Professional Ethics

A great story over on David Maister's Passion, People and Principles blog titled A Case Study In professional Ethics. Its a great story about integrity,

EB
Feb 13, 2007
Learning from Failure

The Slow Leadership blog has an interesting post about "Practicing Conscious Incompetence". What is Conscious Incompetence? In a nutshell, it is the act

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Feb 12, 2007
Mike Schaffner: Strategic IT

Mike Schaffner over at the "Beyond Blinking Lights" blog has an interesting post titled "Let's Get Strategic!" that discusses the need for IT groups to

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Feb 11, 2007
Seth Godin on Sheepwalking

You've no doubt heard the term "sheep" applied to people who follow others blindly. You know the the people who buy the new 'hot' music album. The people

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Feb 7, 2007
To Listen; To Lead

Do you consider yourself a good leader? How about a good listener? According to Larry Spears, CEO of the Greenleaf Center, one of the top 10 skills that a

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Feb 6, 2007
Interesting Blog: Rhett Laubach

Ran across an interesting blog written by Rhett Laubach titled "Personal Leadership Insight" has a lot of interesting ideas about leadership. One

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Feb 5, 2007
The power of mind-mapping

In the past few weeks I've been reading about creative and critical thinking and the creative process. One of the things that many people recommend to

EB
Feb 2, 2007
Authentic Leadership

The February 2007 edition of the Harvard Business Review (HBR) contains one of the best articles I've read in that journal in quite a while. The article,

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Feb 1, 2007
Charles Green on ‘Why Trust Matters’

Another great post by Charles on his Trusted Advisor Associates blog "Trust Matters". In the post, Charles is describing why he has named his blog "Trust

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Jan 31, 2007
Kent Blumberg: Essential Leadership Tools

Just ran across an interesting post about leadership tools on Kent Blumberg's blog. Kent lists 15 'tools' that are essential for a leader. In a nutshell,

EB
Jan 26, 2007
Execution

One of the most important things a leader can do (if not the most important) is to ensure that their organization executes the appropriate plans/actions

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