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Frank Faeth
John Eggert of IdeaLeadership out of Houston, Texas, conducted a survey, whose purpose was to ‘better understand the challenges to communication and collaboration among professionals from technology-related disciplines and those outside of these disciplines.’  John was kind enough to allow me to share his findings, which are in an article entitled “Non-Technologists’ Perceptions of Technology...
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Ever since Bloomberg bought Business Week, the change in content has been significant.  The April 16th – 22nd issue contained articles that addressed talent management from two successful managers, Reed Hastings of NetFlix and Angela Ahrendts of Burberry, who have very novel ideas about how to get the best from your staff .  What drew...
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Do you think only management superstars are successful?  Are celebrity CEOs the only executives to emulate?  When you think about all the strong businesses in the world and that you never hear a word about their executives, the answer is quite clear.  The answer is ‘no.’ Many books and articles have been written about the...
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Do you think only management superstars are successful?  Are celebrity CEOs the only executives to emulate?  When you think about all the strong businesses in the world and that you never hear a word about their executives, the answer is quite clear.  The answer is ‘no.’ Many books and articles have been written about the...
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Last week’s Wall Street Journal had an article that was spot on to my focus as a coach and was introduced with a brilliant headline:  “IT  is From Venus, Non-IT is From Mars.”  Wish I had thought of that!  Never before have I found such rich evidence to prove the point that business and IT...
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Technologists are perhaps the least aware of all employees of the value of having a personal brand. More important to them is getting a project done on time, completing development, going from test to production or ensuring the business has signed off on requirements. Transcending Boundaries Technologists need to transcend the perceived narrow boundaries of...
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An issue of CIO Dashboard begins with five IT assessment questions which a new CIO should investigate.  Of the five, two related to the relationship between business and IT.  These were: First, do business and IT leaders regularly interact? Second, can business sponsors for the top 5 projects describe a project’s business case in one...
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One of the questions I am asked and many of the comments I receive from my blog have to do with technologists making the transition from ‘technology’ to ‘business leadership/management.’   (One quick note:  while I write about ‘technologists,’ the term can also pertain to those in technical roles such as auditor, financial analyst, market analyst,...
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Two articles about coaching performance were given to me within a few days of each other, and they both had similar findings about what distinguishes an average coaching engagement from a superior one. The results were simultaneously startling and not at all surprising. What they had in common was that regularly asking for input is...
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The Oxford dictionary defines ‘character’ as “the collective qualities or characteristics, especially mental and moral, that distinguish a person or thing; a moral strength; reputation, especially a good reputation.”  I think we’d all agree that character matters significantly in our personal lives as well as in our professional lives.  Indeed, a goal, and perhaps a...
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