Yesterday I attended a CIO Summit, put on by the Society for Information Management (SIM) in New York City. My attendance was prompted by the topic of IT leadership, which...Read More
Technology management is not getting any easier, despite technology’s ubiquity, the ease with which we integrate it with our daily lives and cloud-based services, which should simplify nearly everything if...Read More
Another great interview about doing the job you were meant to do was in yesterday’s New York Times Business section: “Sometimes, You Need to Blow the Fuses.” Bill Kling, founder...Read More
Achieving your highest performance means doing what you never considered possible. Metaphorically, according to Ana Dutra, CEO of Korn/Ferry Leadership and Talent Consulting in “Sprinkles of Pixie Dust” in The...Read More
A recent McKinsey survey (from December 2011 McKinsey Quarterly “A Rising Role for IT: McKinsey Global Survey Results”) notes a true dichotomy in IT performance and IT’s role in business...Read More
Daniel Goleman‘s “Transforming Leadership from Art to Science” describes six leadership styles: Visionary, Coaching, Affiliative, Democratic, Pacesetting, and Commanding. Of these, the last two are to be used sparingly and...Read More
I was surprised to find in The New Yorker an article on coaching. Written by surgeon Atul Gawande in the October 3, 2011, issue, “Personal Best: Top Athletes and Singers...Read More
A big question faced by the three major organizations I worked for concerned the career path of technologists. Would remaining a ‘technologist’ hurt a career? How could technologists make the...Read More
Very rarely — except possibly on the most technical projects — is collaborating with the business not a necessity on technology projects. Indeed, it is the goal of technology to...Read More
