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 – and Why It Matters by B.L. Ochman’s blog on B.L. Ochman’s WhatsNextBlog Whom to Pay is More Important than How Much or How by Claudio Fernández-Aráoz on HarvardBusiness.org The … Read more Links for July 12 2009
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. Today’s CIO is having a tough time. They’re being asked to do more with less. Budgets are being slashed. Projects are being canceled. Tough times indeed. What can the CIO … Read more Keeping your IT staff Engaged and Happy – The New CIO Series
Can an organization be built on individuality with a focus on bringing humanity back to business? I think so. The modern day corporation was developed to build ‘stuff’. To build ‘stuff’, organization was needed. To keep the organization flowing, management was needed. Management created processes, procedures, flowcharts, operational efficiencies, human resources, etc etc etc. Many … Read more Humanity and Business
This is a guest post from Michael Sebastian, PhD. Find out more information about Michael here. Anger, fear, depression and fatigue. These are the feelings of many employees today. And those emotions don’t get checked in at the door. A bad economy has many employees feeling stressed out and apathetic about their jobs, resulting in … Read more Guest Post: The Cost of Employee Disengagement
The latest edition of CIO Magazine has an interesting article titled “Power from Your People” written by Karan Sorenson, VP & CIO at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals. In the article, Sorenson makes an interesting claim: The role of CIO goes far beyond ‘leading IT’…it includes mentoring employees and developing employees throughout the organization. In most … Read more The Role of the CIO: Mentor
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 … Read more Guest Post: This is Why You Should Change Careers