Articles on Sunday Links

Innovators overcome the can'ts Quote: Merely recognizing the can'ts and addressing them in advance can help, but that's not enough.  Doubt and prior

This Transformation Feels Different. Disruptively So. Quote:The drawing board for all of these newly created disruptors isn’t a better retail store or a

Cloud security is not an oxymoron Quote: I get it: there is a lot of data that can’t move to the cloud, not because IT managers don’t understand the

Fulltime IT hiring is in; CIOs who can’t manage change are on the way out Quote: What does this mean for CIOs? According to Lane, the most important trait

A social media contrarian speaks out on the limited value of tweet analytics Quote: Tools are becoming more powerful and easier to use, so we have that.

On Being Present And Engaged Quote: Catching peoples’ time, capturing their attention is a huge challenge for all of us.  When we finally do, we need to

The new CIO challenge: Assembling the right combo of human and machine smarts Quote: Business peers are tech savvy, customers are plugged into your

Time to rethink your business model Quote: If your business model is so obsolete that the only way to make money is to extract fees when your customers

Shadow IT: Far Bigger, Less Manageable And More Important Than You Think Quote: Even when lines of business initiate technology purchases, it is

Leading IT Through Trust and Ownership Quote: I need my entire IT staff to think “outside / in” by learning about and caring about the lives of our

16 Leadership Lessons from a Four Star General Quote: Rank, authority, and even responsibility can be inherited or assigned, whether or not an individual

Midwest IT Survival » Evolution of Corporate IT and the Future Impact of Cloud Quote: All in all, corporate IT is in constant evolution. The rate of

6 IT Strategies to Stay Ahead of Data Center Trends - CIO.com Quote: Automation, virtualization, cloud computing -- these technology trends are

Three Steps to Improving Business-IT Alignment Quote: Whether we call it business-IT alignment or not, the desired state for a CIO is to be respected and

Midsize Insider: Cloud FTW (For the Win) – How Gaming Developers are Driving a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry Using Open Standards, Cloud Quote: We are

What's Your Story? Quote: Taking our corporate strategy, translating it into traceable, optimizable metrics, and using our data and models in a

Innovate on Purpose: People are our most important asset Quote: Innovation is vitally, critically dependent on good people who are passionate about

Ford’s data scientist: Keep all the data and sort it out later — Tech News and Analysis Quote: Ford Data Scientist Mike Cavaretta, talks about just how

Can Do vs. Can’t Do Cultures - Ben's Blog Quote: Who does the Can’t Do Culture hurt the most? Ironically, it hurts the haters. The people who focus on

6 Signs You Need a New IT Strategy — CIO Dashboard Quote: IT must institute massive change on multiple fronts: deepen and reshape business relationships,

Innovate on Purpose: Insights, Innovation and Intuition Quote: Good innovation managers can corral quantitative results, qualitative insights, customer

Innovate on Purpose: Why corporate innovation is so difficult Quote: So tip your hat to the corporate innovator. She's got to overcome a significant

Accelerating human invention with all the computers you’ll ever need — Tech News and Analysis Quote: Cycle Computing CEO Jason Stowe dives deep into the

The Internet Of Things Will Be Huge—Just Not As Huge As The Hype – ReadWrite Quote: Like most things in life, the real value of the Internet of Things

Are technologists trying to solve the wrong problem? — Tech News and Analysis Quote: Technologists tend to forget that normal people have a different take

Inversion and The Power of Avoiding Stupidity Quote: Spend less time trying to be brilliant and more time trying to avoid obvious stupidity. The kicker?

Oh I See (CIO Inverted): Integrated Best of Breed Quote: Predictions about the demise of the larger solutions have been around for a while now; I do not

The Secret of Good IT Communications Quote: To be brief is to be selective. Choosing only the most important details is crucial. There should be just a

“It Won’t Work. We Tried That” Quote: Bottom line: bad marketing science is dangerous. And we should demand that it at least get itself a half-decent

Not Solving Every Problem | The Enterprising CIO Quote: Problems exist so that they can be solved. That's the basis for succeeding as an enterprising CIO.

When Does Quantity Become Quality? How to navigate big data | UX Magazine Quote: Data should not be used for finding evidence to support our own opinions

The big data Wild West: The good, the bad and the ugly — Tech News and Analysis Quote: Ron Bodkin of Think Big Analytics discusses the best and worst

Big Social Data: The Second Era Starts Quote: When Big Data techniques are applied to the social media firehose, some amazing things start to happen. Like

Anticipate the Corporate Culture of "No!" - Sales Aerobics for Engineers ® Blog Quote: Do you work in a Culture of No? Some of you will be defeated by the

Data Science for Business - O'Reilly Radar Quote: Data analytic thinking means knowing what questions to ask, how to ask those questions, and whether the

Unicorn, Shmunicorn: Be a Pegasus | UX Magazine Quote: But who better to take on the product challenges of the future than cream-of-the-crop UX

Open Innovation: The Heart of Small Business | Free Enterprise Quote: The small business often has the advantage of proximity to their customers, but this

CIOs need to learn to become enablers rather than gatekeepers — Tech News and Analysis Quote: CIO bashing has become popular sport, but in reality

How Innovations Spread Quote: We believe that we can just tell people the facts and ideas will spread. That’s not really how it works. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Creating an Open, Transparent Organization through Social | Enterprise Social Software Blog | Socialtext Quote: Not only can social break down the walls

BYOD security and the importance of covering your backend — Tech News and Analysis Quote: So you’ve accepted BYOD and a host of new apps to support.

Meet the startups making machine learning an elementary affair — Tech News and Analysis Quote: The choices are getting a lot better for businesses that

Oh I See (CIO Inverted): Flexible or efficient ? Quote: Can organizations and CIOs create a balance between the efficiency and flexibility agenda ? Is

After Sandy, SMBs Should Consider Following Wall Street into the Cloud | SMBSource Quote: As Hurricane Sandy showed, the possibility of massive system

The Smarter Data Manifesto - Quote: You need to look beyond the ways data used to be collected to how technology can help you use your data far more

Freeing your IT department from Stackholm Syndrome — Tech News and Analysis Quote: Many IT departments are enslaved by the very systems they have

Customer Journeys: Miles to Go - Highly Competitive - software industry insights Quote: The best outcome of any customer interaction or experience should

Bowling with God: Vint Cerf Talks Time Travel, Porn, and Web Addiction Quote: One of the lessons it’s taught me is as soon as you make it easy for people

Why personas can be a bad idea for content marketing Quote: I guess that brings me full circle: go ahead and create personas. It can never be a bad idea

When Does Customer Sentiment Matter? - semanticweb.com Quote: The company was able to look through customer verbatim online comments to filter for

Innovate on Purpose: Breaking out of the m (old) for disruptive innovation Quote: When you want truly disruptive innovation, you will need to break the

A Dangerous Bias: action over thinking - UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley Quote: So, perhaps if our agile and iterative processes do not seem to be

The Three Elements of Successful Data Visualizations - Jim Stikeleather - Harvard Business Review Quote: Storytelling helps the viewer gain insight from

Young and Hungry - carpe factum Quote: Young and hungry is not about ego. In proving itself, young and hungry lets the accomplishment trump the

Technology is king, so why are so many IT departments playing backseat roles? — Tech News and Analysis Quote: As employees feel increasingly entitled to

Global IT Spend Will Rise 4.1% To $3.8 Trillion In 2013, ‘A Calm Ocean With Turbulent Currents’, With Mobile Driving Growth | TechCrunch Quote: After

“Steering your car via the gas tank”, when cost trumps strategy Quote: ...the budget is not a strategy, it is not a means of leadership, and it is simply

Marketing and the CIO race to see who can waste more money on CRM initiatives. Quote: What is the point here? The point is that currently leaders in

Know the Difference Between Your Data and Your Metrics - Jeff Bladt and Bob Filbin - Harvard Business Review Quote: In the business world, we talk about

Can evil data scientists fool us all with the world’s best spam? — Tech News and Analysis Quote: Just when you thought spam was under control, a new breed

“Because that’s the way it’s done” — should a founder listen? by @ASmartBear Quote: Do it your own way, but you’d better have your eyes open

Strong CIO, C-suite Relationships Drive Growth — CIO Dashboard Quote: Your ability as a CIO to cultivate strong relationships with your C-suite peers is

Don't Let Strategy Become Planning - Roger Martin - Harvard Business Review Quote: To make strategy more interesting — and different from a budget — we

Be Vulnerable - Feld Thoughts Quote: The great leaders I know are vulnerable. Maybe not to everyone, maybe not all the time, and maybe not in all

Placing Strategic Bets in the Face of Uncertainty - Roger Martin - Harvard Business Review Quote: Strategy means making the best possible choices you can

Bridging the Chasm Between IT and the Business Quote: The future has to be one in which the massive tensions that exist between IT and the business unit

Ideas are the Core of a Leadership Philosophy Quote: Great leaders lead, with ideas, not through positional power, authority or command. Ideas have

Open data is not a panacea « mathbabe Quote: When important data goes public, the edge goes to the most sophisticated data engineer, not the general

Amazon: Five predictions for 2013 | Internet & Media - CNET News Quote: Amazon, the e-commerce juggernaut, will likely keep steamrolling every

Big Data and Discovery « Inside the Biz with Jill Dyche Quote: The sooner business executives understand the value of knowledge discovery, the more likely

The DNA of the CIO Quote: The clear message from many CIOs – old and young, in mature and rapid-growth markets and spanning a range of industries – is

Digital Strategy Does Not Equal IT Strategy - Mark P. McDonald - Harvard Business Review Quote: Having a digital edge matters. According to our research

Change Trumps Technology Quote: So, do I think your organization should be advancing into the digital/social media world? Absolutely. But you’d better

ITSinsider | Fracking for Value in the Enterprise Quote:  It’s kind of like fracking in the bedrock of the enterprise for stored value.  Chris Morace,

McKinsey Report Highlights Failure of Large Projects: why it is better to be small, particularly in IT Quote: Its time for CIOs to offer a different

Get Responsibility for Data Out of IT - Thomas C. Redman - Harvard Business Review Quote: The larger motivation is to get responsibility for data where it

Big Data Hype (and Reality) - Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro - Harvard Business Review Quote: Big data analytics can improve predictions, but the biggest

Links for Sunday Oct 14 2012 covering topics ranging from privacy,the CIO, the CMO and the CMTO

Managing Expectations is an Art — Gene De Libero - Digital Marketing Strategist and Technologist Quote: I learned early in my career that setting and

Plans: Control over Clarity Quote: In short, one of the main values of strategic plans is that they limit our choices. They provide a script (game plan,

Links for September 23 2012 covering topics for CIO's, CMO's and others

The Power of Subtraction - Anthony Tjan - Harvard Business Review Quote: Through the power of subtraction, the above five "laws" can drive more focused

"We want to test bold, new ideas that always work." - Chief Marketing Technologist Quote: Failure is an inherent part of real experimentation. "We have an

Sorry, Content Dudes, But It's Just Plain Old Marketing – Danny Brown Quote: The thing is, though, it’s still just another tactic. The content is part of

When Everything is Taken Away, We See Who We Truly Are | Becoming Minimalist Quote: Done correctly, minimalism is far more than just an outward journey

Balancing the IT Budget - OCDQ Blog - Obsessive-Compulsive Data Quality by Jim Harris Quote: Although it’s impossible to completely balance the IT budget,

Data Scientists Should Be Design Thinkers Quote: Big Data is about redefining (yet another design thinking element, referred to as “reframing the

Stop Waiting. Quote: A life that comes easily, quickly, and free or cheap, is not worth your soul’s attention or longing. Find the thing that you enjoy so

The Cloud is shifting our Center of Gravity - OCDQ Blog - Obsessive-Compulsive Data Quality by Jim Harris Quote: The cloud is shifting our center of

Links for Sunday July 15 2012 covering various topics from IT to Education

Re:Focus: Don't Trust Companies Who Put Customers First Quote: Customers should never be the priority…people should be the priority. Some of those people

Finishing well is just as important as getting off to a good start by Tom Catalini Quote: Forging through to meet the minimum requirements and rush off to

Weekly links roundup covering leadership, technology, and communication. Featured topics include people-centered workplaces and human interaction.

Innovation will become a core competency by Jeffrey Phillips on Innovate on Purpose Quote: My final argument is that regardless of what wins in your

Links for June 10 2012 covering all sorts of topics. Check it out.

When I Won’t Give Away What I Know by Ambder Naslund on Brass Tack Thinking Quote: The “how” of what I do what I do is my secret sauce, my championship

Links for Sunday May 20 2012 covering interesting topics from the previous week

Weekly links covering leadership, IT consumerization, and social media authenticity. Curated articles on business and technology topics.

Weekly links roundup covering simplicity in technology, the power of sharing mistakes, and lessons for CIOs and IT leaders.

Links for April 29 2012 covering topics for the CIO, CMO and more.

Links for April 22 2012 covering topics relevant to IT, the CIO and other topics

Links for Sunday April 15 2012 covering topics for the CIO

Weekly links covering everyday experts, big data and data science, customer anticipation, and strategic preparation for business leaders.

Links for Sunday April 1 2012 covering IT, Innovation, culture and more

Links for March 24 2012 covering Marketing, Technology, IT and CIO related stories.

Links for Sunday March 18 2012 covering IT, Technology, Marketing and CIO related topics.

Hubris and the Data Scientist by Paul Miller on The Cloud of Data Quote: Moving forward, we need both domain skills and data skills. Sometimes those

Links for Sunday March 4 2012 covering IT, CIO's, engagement, marketing and more

The Alchemy and Mystery of Leadership by Wally Bock on Three Star Leadership Blog Quote: You will never know the impact you have on most of your team

Links for February 19 2012 covering innovation, users, marketing, technology and more

Links for Sunday February 12 2012 covering Leadership, Business and Marketing

Links for February 5 2012 covering Leadership, Community, Technology and more

Weekly links covering front-line strategy, CIO advice for CFOs, leadership, and the relationship between IT and finance in organizations.

The Danger of Imitation by Kevin Eikenberry Quote: Observe and learn from others who have been where you are going. But don’t lose yourself on that

The Human Marketing Manifesto by Russ Somers on russsomers.com Quote: I am not a lead, I am a person. A human being with human concerns....I was not

To Know, But Not to Understand by Valeria Maltoni on Conversation Agent Quote: We rely, in other words, on a random accumulation of localised knowledge

Happy New Year! You Don’t Live in the World You Were Born Into by Mark Cuban on blog maverick Quote: “If you are looking where everyone else is for the

Technology Merely Facilitates by Jim Shamlin on Jim's Notebook Quote: If you give an illiterate a typewriter, he can't write a novel. He can't write a

The difference between a failure and a mistake by Seth Godin Quote: We need a lot more failures, I think. Failures that don't kill us make us bolder, and

Five Common Strategy Mistakes by Joan Magretta on Harvard Business Review Quote: But as important as it is to have insight into customers' needs, don't

IT anti-patterns: reverse behavior lessons from Steve Jobs by Peter Kretzman on CTO/CIO Perspectives Quote: Unfortunately, for every Jobs out there with

The Job of a CIO - Content verses Context by John D. Halamka on Life as a Healthcare CIO Quote: Here's a bold thought - might the context of being a CIO

What cloud boils down to for the enterprise By James Urquhart on GigaOm - Cloud Computing News Quote: What you do bring to the table–er, service–is code,

Leadership Is a Gift Given by Those Who Follow by Grant McCracken on Harvard Business Review Quote: Leadership as an act of service. As the General says,

Don’t Sell Technology, Sell Magic by Ben Yoskovitz on instigator blog Quote: Customers want results. They’re attracted to products that delight them.

The paradox of expectations by Seth Godin Quote: Perhaps it's worth considering no expectations. Intense effort followed by an acceptance of what you get

Reductio Ad Absurdum by Jim Shamlin Quote: Don't get me wrong: I'm a fan of surrealism and I adore absurdity, which means I'll gladly watch a

Google Doesn"t Get Platforms. What Doesn"t Your Company Get? by Elisa Gabbert on WordStream Quote: One could, if one was a Google hater, misconstrue this

On Accountability and The Initiative to Learn by Amber Naslund on Brass Tack Thinking Quote: But what we need are more people with the initiative and the

Why Your New Process Is A Waste of Time. And Might Just Kill Your Company....by Andy Porter on Fistful of Talent Quote: Processes often replace dialogue.

Enterprise social networking sucks the social out of ‘social’ by Linda Tucci onTotalCIO Quote: ...the problem won’t be the technology, he said, but in

Rethinking Measurement by Jamie Notter Quote: ...rethinking your metrics is probably a GREAT way to start changing some trajectories. Measure different

Your attention please by Jason F on 37signals Quote: The greatest things you make and do are the ones that get your full attention. It’s helpful to take

The IT Reformation and the Splinternet (Part 1), by Frank Johnson | Hub Designs Magazine Quote: Progressive CIOs and thought leaders aren’t clamoring for

Dump the SLA. Service expectations matter more by Rodrigo Flores GigaOm Cloud Computing News Quote: To improve SLAs we need to work on two questions.

Consumers and creators by Seth Godin Quote: And now of course, when it's easy to have a blog, or an Youtube account or to push your ideas to the world

Standard & Poor's Downgrade: How Debt Has Defined Human History by David Graeber on Speakeasy - WSJ Quote: Instead of setting up great overarching

Ten Reasons Why the Agency Model is Broken by Valeria Maltoni on Conversation Agent Quote: Agencies need to change how they work with clients, or they

Dispel the myth of “lean will not work here” by Jeff Liker on The Lean Edge Quote: In short, every organization is operating in a different environment

5 Things CIOs need to know about Google Plus by Tom Catalini Quote: Take a look at Google Plus to get a sense of the future, which seems to be arriving

Sometimes I really get it wrong; my apology to SEO industry by Robert Scoble on Scobleizer Quote: Anyway, it’s 2011 now and it’s clear that the Google way

More letters to RIM; employees rally alongside anonymous exec on Boy Genius Report Quote: If I could only tell Mike, Jim and the rest of the C*O crowd one

CIO's Must Make Enterprise Architecture a First Class Citizen by Mike Walker Quote: I wouldn't necessarily make everyone use an architecture method as

Why Marketers Should Forget Frameworks & Think Outside the Box by Sarah Goliger on HubSpot Blog Quote: So what’s the takeaway here? Sometimes you need

Creating a Lasting Impression by JK Allen on The Hustler's Notebook Quote: Be the standard. Create a lasting impression. Experience the new opportunities

Measuring IT Staff Performance by Arun Manansingh on A CIO's Voice Quote: Staff performance should be evaluated in various categories that align with your

All economics is local by Seth Godin Quote: That's because geography isn't as important as it used to be, but more than that, it has to do with the fact

Success is... by Craig Brown on Better Projects Quote: Success is how you make people's experience beat their expectations. You might know this by another

Making Enterprise Architecture Matter By Martha Heller on CIO.com Quote: The ultimate paradox is this: Architects are as necessary as they are rare. “It’s

Looking for Liquids, or Losing Sight of What Matters by Steve Boese on Fistful of Talent Quote: If you spend time, energy, focus, and rewards looking for

Why does the sun never set on legacy applications? by Jim Harris on OCDQ - Obsessive-Compulsive Data Quality (OCDQ) Quote: The simple reason most legacy

The Evolution of Customer Service by Michael Fauscette Quote: Social customer service and support is simply an extension of your current offerings, which

Because You Matter by Danny Brown on Social Media Marketing Blog Quote: We spend so much time wondering how we can be like someone else. How we can have

Avoiding the CMS Death Spiral by David Aponovich on The CMS Myth Quote: CMS is a challenging technology to get right. It’s complex software that supports

IT Outsourcing: Study Highlights Impediments to Innovation CIO.com Quote: Most IT service providers are equally mired, focusing on their bread-and-butter

Culture Trumps Strategy, Every Time by Nilofer Merchant on The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Quote: After working on strategy for 20 years, I can

Three Questions that Will Kill Innovation - Tony Golsby-Smith - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Quote: ...innovation runs counter to so many of

Why People Are the Heart & Soul of the Information Age by Tim Sanders on Sanders Says - Quote: ... highly engaged innovators produce the breakthrough

Lessons From a Corporate Insider: Dream Big, but Think Small by Mark Ivey on MarketingProfs Daily Fix Blog Quote: Rather than delude yourself into

It is all about The Customer by Neil Pearce Quote: Too often we in the IT department are seen as being out of touch by other people within the business

A System for Speaking IT Truths to CEOs - Robert Plant on the Harvard Business Review Quote: One of the protocols that's used for teaching medical

Which is better, thought or action? by Laura Rose on UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley Quote: Everything begins with a thought. Without thought there is no

How to Use Communication to Establish Trust in Remote Teams by Celine Roque on GigaOm Quote: With remote teams, we must know how to communicate

On Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness by Mark Suster on Both Sides of the Table Quote: It’s my belief that through exceptional leadership you

A Four Step Process for Evaluating Risks in Social Business by Jacob Morgan on CloudAve Quote: I just finished reading “The New Supply Chain Agenda,” by

Without Integrity and Trust, Rewards and Recognition are Meaningless by Dan McCarthy on Great Leadership Quote: At the end of the day, no perfect system

Two Things to Remember as You Change the World by Mary Jo Asmus on Aspire-CS Quote: Patience and perseverance. You must have both. Together, and at the

Happy New Year everyone! 2011: The Enterprise Resets by Aaron Levie on TechCrunch Quote:...what would enterprise IT look like if all companies were

Social Media Marketing Won't Fix Your Infrastructure Problem by David Armano on Logic+Emotion Quote: Every business has a series of systems and

Unlocking the Mayor Badge of Meaninglessness by Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review Quote: Social media needs to enlarge its blinkered, myopic

Why customer experience innovation matters now by Jeffrey Phillips on Innovate on Purpose Quote: ...firms that improve the customer experience, not just

Freetards: The Webmaster's Guide to Freetard Culture by Aaron Wall SEO Book.com Quote: With the rise of social media there is a rise of consumers feeling

The need for connection & engagement in education by Garr Reynolds on Presentation Zen Quote: Few people think that the formal education systems

Starting Over by Michael Bigger on Bigger Capital Great article about starting over...and excellent advice for anyone, regardless of your place in life.

Why Best Practices Are Hard to Practice by Ron Ashkenas on Harvard Business Review Quote: One of the characteristics of great companies is that they

Hey, Chief, back your people up! by Dave Grossi on PoliceOne Daily One Quote: What really gets my Italian blood boiling is this incessant need by police

The Consumerization of IT By Zack Urlocker on GigaOm Quote: In a recent presentation, Lew Cirne, CEO of application performance management vendor New

Are You Really Marketing or Just Advertising? by Alan Belniak on MarketingProfs Daily Fix Blog Quote: How many companies push words on a paper and crank

Fewer Customers, but the Right Ones by Hanna Halaburda - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Quote: This tension between a seemingly natural

Motivation Over Talent and Process by by Jurgen Appelo on NOOP.NL Quote: Processes are not enough to make people more competent. You need motivation

5 Things to Know Before Buying Marketing Automation by Carlos Hidalgo on MarketingProfs Daily Fix Blog Quote: If you are thinking of automating your

Focus on getting a few meaningful things right by George Ambler on The Practice of Leadership Quote: Effective leadership focuses on doing a few things

Should marketing technology be centralized? by Scott Brinker on Chief Marketing Technologist Quote: As marketers adopt more and more marketing technology

Enterprises Consider Business Agility As A Primary Driver Towards Cloud By Krishnan Subramanian on CloudAve Quote: This report has a quantitative survey

How Be An Effective Corporate Ambassador by David Armano on Logic+Emotion Quote: An individual who aligns themselves with a larger organization and has

Social Software Needs to Be a Layer, Not a Feature, In the Enterprise by Eugene Lee on Enterprise Social Software Blog | Socialtext Quote: We believe we

The New New CIO Role: Big Changes Ahead By Thomas Wailgum on CIO.com Quote: CIOs themselves are in the midst of a make-or-break personal change-management

The Case for Listening by Rajesh Setty Quote: To be totally effective, you have to be doing something now or increasing your capacity to do something in

Shadow IT vs. Shadow Marketing By Scott Brinker on Chief Marketing Technologist Quote: IT people work for IT. Marketing people work for marketing. And, as

What Motivates Us to Innovate? by Dan Blank on Publishing, Innovation & the Web Quote: Why do we innovate? Is it proactive or reactive? Is it

Transparency creates an information blizzard not an excuse, nor an absolution by Mark McDonald on The Gartner Blog Network Quote: Transparency is a hot

Why compensation models work against innovation by Jeffrey Phillips on Innovate on Purpose Quote: I honestly believe that if a firm seeks to become more

Who Owns Social Media? Everyone and No One by Steve Radick on Social Media Strategery Quote: Does Marketing own Social media? PR? What about IT? All good

I assume I'm below average by Derek Sivers Quote: To assume you're below average is to admit you're a beginner. It puts you in student mind. It keeps your

Competition is overrated by Chris Dixon on cdixon.org Quote: Startups are primarly competing against indifference, lack of awareness, and lack of

Lead From The Front and The Back by Simon Sinek on Re:Focus: Yes leadership is about leading, standing out front.  Yes leadership is about painting a

BP oil spill: Leadership and IT failure Quote: As the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill continues to grow, reports suggest that several IT failures may

IT's Three Key Organizational Transformations by Andrew McAfee on Harvard Business Review's Blog Quote: I see companies in all industries using computers

You Too Can Be a Strategy Consultant: Three Secret Tools Revealed by Charles H. Green on Trust Matters Quote: The art of general management and strategic

You’re Just the Founder « Steve Blank A great reminder to everyone that what you do today might just come back around to bite you in the future. Applying

How do you create a culture of storytelling? by Steve Denning on The Leader's Guide to Radical Management: Quote: I am sometimes asked: what’s involved in

kindfully + mindfully by Leo Babuata on Zen Habits Quote: The Golden Rule goes something along the lines of, “Treat others as you’d want to be treated (in

Don't Listen to Your Market by Scott Sehlhorst on Tyner Blain Quote: Most companies ignore their markets – and they will struggle to survive.  Some

Silence is a Leadership Trait by Samuel Bacharach Quote: Between the words, between the actions, between the political strategies, leaders must create

How to Defy Newton's Laws of Motion in Marketing by Valeria Maltoni on Conversation Agent: Quote: Emerging media allows you to develop laser focus in your

Innovation success is based on enthusiasm by Jeffrey Phillips on Innovate on Purpose Quote from the article: What sustains innovation over time is the

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I'm trying out a new approach to my link sharing posts. I'm now using delicious to capture the the articles that I want to share along with my notes. I

Too Big to Trust? Or Too Untrustworthy to Scale? by Charles H. Green on Trust Matters Preach it Brother Edelman by Robbin Phillips on Brains On Fire Blog

Strategy Is Boring by Kneale Mann on One Mann's Opinion Are you stress testing your IT strategies? by Christina Torode on TotalCIO Innovation and the

Pick one and own it by Jason Cohen on A Smart Bear The Strategy Trap: Why focusing too much on strategy could be killing your ability to execute by

To Grow a Company, You Need to be Good at Killing Things by Auren Hoffman on Summation Why IT Shouldn't Be Involved in Marketing Software Decisions by

Talent: Develop Strengths or Weaknesses? Yes. by Steve Roesler on All Things Workplace 5 Tips for Improving the Synergy between Marketing and IT by Jenn

I don't normally do this, but I wanted to do a little self-promotion with this first link: Eric D. Brown's Engineering Approach by Ron Egatz on The Induro

The most important thing in your company is not a thing by Mark McDonald on The Gartner Blog Network 6 Lessons for Life by Jon Gordon on Jon Gordon's Blog

Five by Chuck Musciano on The Effective CIO The Splinternet means the end of the Web's golden age by Josh Bernoff on Groundswell Run IT Like a Business,

Outstanding leaders put people first from Management-Issues : News Enterprise 2.0 - Building the New Schoolyard for Bullies? by Ben Kepes on CloudAve On

Forget means to an end, and find the meaning of life by Jared Goralnick on Technotheory.com Seizing opportunities in turbulent markets: The Tingyi story

The Evolution of Social Media and Business by Brian Solis from PR 2.0 Make No Little Plans – Defining the Scalable Startup by Steve Blank Amnesia is a

Competing with Pirates by Mark Fidelman on Seek Omega and Cross Posted on CloudAve Why Planning Is Important, Your Plan is Not by George Krueger and

How Passion and Focus Will Rock Your Career by Corbett Barr on Zen Habits Does Customer Service Influence Customer Service Ratings? by Frank Eliason on

Storytelling on the web by Rob Mills on Carsonified Long Tail Vs. The Blockbuster by Paul Barsch on Marketing Profs Daily Fix 5 strategies for a better

CIOs need ‘both/and’ strategies for 2010 not either/or choices by Mark McDonald on The Gartner Blog Network Unlocking the Passion Paradox by Kevin

You Can Only Lead the Horse by Amber Naslund on Altitude Branding Leadership – What’s Love Got To Do With it? by Terry Starbucker on TerryStarbucker.com

Why Social Media Purists Won’t Last by Jason Falls on Social Media Explorer Reliability vs. Validity by Mark Howell on Strategy Central The Led Zeppelin

Leadership and Leverage by Steven Levy on No Secret Social Software 2.0: Enterprise Process Ubiquity by Hutch Carpenter on I'm Not Actually a Geek Taking

Skin In The Game by Chuck Musciano on The Effective CIO Disposable people? A question raised in Cannes by Mark McDonald on The Gartner Blog Netwrok The

Intuition vs. Data-Driven Decision-Making: Some Rough Ideas by Bob Sutton on Bob Sutton - Work Matters CIO and the Art of Decision Making by Arun

Starting with Trust by Jamie on Get Me Jamie Notter Self-Organization vs. Emergence by Jurgen Appelo on NOOP.NL: Managing Software Development When

How CIOs can sense if their companies are getting ready to fall? by Mark McDonald on The Gartner Blog Network 10 Tips on Building a Better Business by Ted

What Human Business And the Social Web Are About by Chris Brogan on chrisbrogan.com The Insider Threat: What CIOs Need To Know by Dr. Jim Anderson on The

Success is About Relationships by Kevin Eikenberry from Remarkable Learning with Kevin Eikenberry Can CIOs Drive Innovation & Boost Quality At The

Sorry to miss last Sunday's Link post...I was trying to recover from my vacation :) Benefits of Slow Practice by Steve Neiderhauser Is Your Strategy About

Lego: How much does profit matter? from Hoover's Business Insight Zone by Tim Walker Hire for Trustingness, Train for Trustworthiness from Trust Matters

The Past and the Future of Digital Storytelling from Men With Pens by Taylor The Future of Content Management from assertTrue( ) by Kas Thomas 7 Marks of

Social Media and IT Security: Adversaries or Partners? by Steve Radick on Social Media Strategery The T.S. Eliot Guide to Success by Mark McGuinness on

How to SWOT away Strategic Planning by Steve Neiderhauser The Role of the CTO: Four Models for Success by Bob Gourley on CTOvision.com A Tendency to Blame

What Happens When Managers Coach? by Steve Roesler on All Things Workplace Trend to Watch: Trust in Business Is Running Out by Eric Beinhocker and

The Value Every Business Needs to Create Now by Umair Haque on HarvardBusiness.org Three Key Principles when Leading without Authority by George Ambler on

Skilled or Gifted by Stephen Gillett on The Guild CIO Hire People Who Disagree with You by John Baldoni on HarvardBusiness.org Project Management: Is PMP

“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

Get Ready As Corporate Sites and Social Networks Start To Connect by Jeremiah Owyang on Web Strategy Why Authenticity is More Important Than Ever by Aaron

Social change takes more than social media by Ivan Booth on the Rootwork Blog (via Beth Kanter's Blog) KISS: The Difference Between Strategy and Tactics -

On Social Media and Culture Shift by Amber Naslund on Altitude Branding The ROI on Flexibility by Peter Campbell on Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use

Why Your Corporate Message Isn’t Being Heard by Jason Falls on Social Media Explorer The 7 Sins of Customer Service by Valeria Maltoni on Conversation

Lots of great stuff out there this past week...can't share it all but will share some.  If you want to track all my shared stories from my google reader

Your Success as a Leader Depends on the Kindness of Strangers by Tammy Erickson on HarvardBusiness.org Who's Minding the Store in Corporate America? by

What is Innovation Management? by Hutch Carpenter on I'm Not Actually a Geek Why underdogs should take more chances by Matt on Signal vs. Noise Starting a

Why Messages Aren't Enough by Amber Naslund on Altitude Branding The first step towards being a networked nonprofit: Simplicity by Beth Kanter on Beth's

Hello everyone...I'm back from my trip to Orlando...links are lite this week due to being away from the computer. Enjoy the few I do have. How the Cloud

Customers sometimes do not know what they want by Matt Rhodes on FreshNetworks Blog Mistakes matter: post-project reviews by Elizabeth Harrin on Project

When You Can't Trust Your Leadership by Charles Green on Trust Matters Change is never linear by Paul Dunay on Buzz Marketing for Technology Stop Reading

We have a huge budget and too much time to complete our business intelligence (BI) project by Martin Proulx on Analytical Mind 9 tactics to effectively

How I failed as a Product Owner and the lessons I learnt in the process by Martin Proulx on Analytical Mind (hat tip to Craig Brown for the link) The

The Case for Customer Communities by Valeria Maltoni on Conversation Agent Tap Employee Passion by Harry Hoover on THINKing Accountability Begins at the

Things not to say - "We don't have time" by Scott Berkun on The Berkun Blog Thinking outside the project: implied responsibilities of an agile product

How your organization's IT department can help support your social media strategy by Beth Kanter Purpose First, Strategy Second, Structure Third by Mark

Happy Sunday everyone.  I've got some good stuff hear I think...one thing to note: Valeria Maltoni of Conversation Agent has 2 links here.  The first gets

Why Ideals are the New Business Models by Umair Haque on HarvardBusiness.org The 5 Percent Trick: Finding Passion and Purpose in Life by Albert on Zen

The High Priests of IT - And the Heretics by Cory Doctorow on HarvardBusiness.org Thank you, Jack Welch by Mike Neiss on The Tom Peters Weblog Innovation,

Creating project plans to focus product development by Steve Neiderhauser Great Entrepreneurs' Secret: Smarts, Guts, and Luck by Anthony Tjan on

Is Marketing Evil? by Seth Godin Process Improvement - Been there, done that. Have you Really? by Glenn Whitfield on IT Business Alignment (IT2B) 6 Ways

Success without failure is impossible. . . by Alexander Muse on Texas Startup Blog Top 10 Outsourcing Trends by Small Businesses in 2009 by Amit

Help IT Run a Less-Risky Business by Susan Cramm on HarvardBusiness.org Why Social Media Will Not Get You A Job In A Recession by Jason Falls on Social

Inspiration Without Action is Wasted Time by C.C. Chapman on Reality Bitchslap IT Doesn't Have To Be Annoying by Mike Schaffner on Beyond Blinking Lights

What Can IT Become When It Grows Up? by Dr. Jim Anderson on The Business of IT Michael Bierut's Notebooks by Merlin Mann on 43 Folders Must haves for your

Some good stuff out there this week...here's a few links for your reading pleasure: Has a business book changed your life? by Jackie Huba on Church of the

Another Sunday, Another List O' Links! :)  Enjoy! Knowledgeable Workforce Requires Knowledge-Filled Workers by Steve Roesler on All Things Workplace

Time for another round of Sunday Links.  Enjoy! Cluecade by Doc Searls Seven reasons cloud computing works in a tough economy by Kathleen Lau on

Ran across some great stories over the last week...enjoy! Stakeholders in a Barrel on Tyner Bain Global CIO: The Top 10 CIO Issues For 2009 by Bob Evan's

This is the last "Sunday Links" post for 2008...hope you find it a good one! Using Information to Develop Productive Relationships by Michael McKinney at

Positive Communication and Leadership by Stephen Smith on Slacker Manager A Lean, Scalable Requirements Information Model for the Agile Enterprise by Dean

Madoff Madness: When Smart People do Stupid Things by Charles Green on Trusted Advisor Associates Five Reasons to kill IT Projects on TechRepublic (hat

Probability and Statistics in Project Estimating by Glen Alleman on Herding Cats ROI on Telecommuting by Jessica Lipnack on Endless Knots (thanks to Bas

A new feature here on the blog...Sunday links. Look for 5 to 10 interesting links every Sunday. The Four Dharmas of Project Management by Bas de Baar -