Archive for January, 2008
Personal Resilience in your quest for personal excellence
Once again I am pointing you to an article on the Leader to Leader Institute website, and this time it covers being ‘prepared to start over - again and again’. I like this article because it talks of personal resilience and learning from personal experiences.
I doubt if anyone has had setbacks in their career or [...]
No Excuse Leadership
Below is a link to a great article that discusses No Excuse Leadership, which I think you should read. Why? Well I think it discusses an important aspect of leadership (and I stress leadership and not management) - creating a vision that inspires an organization to break down resistance to change and to set behavioral [...]
Perfectionism vs Pragmastism: Career Implications
This is a debate I often see in technical circles, mostly between technicians and their less technical managers or stakeholders. It’s a debate that often leads to conflict or a reduction in morale or motivation in each party. It has career implications too; as technical leaders aiming to build a career, its something we need [...]
Using the Power of Pride in an organization to generate motivation
Despite Pride being one of the Seven Deadly Sins, it is a powerful if not underused means of getting things done in the workplace. Pride is an emotion of self-respect.
It is an emotion that, if tapped into, you can use to motivate others, particularly in technical job areas. I use pride as a trigger often [...]
Diary of a Tired CTO
Dear Diary
I did the following things this month.
Met fourteen different IT vendors who gave an impressive high impact presentation on how their products and services can guarantee cost effective, cutting edge, optimized, and seamless, business value in tune with our strategic goals.
Rejected three vendors as their presentations were not in line with strategic customer oriented [...]
To MBA, or not MBA… that is the question?
Question: Does completing an MBA give you a ticket to success as a business leader?
Answer: No, it doesn’t.
The virtues of an MBA are often hyped and rarely understated. So why is it such a big deal? Well the average MBA will cost a student 25K UKP/50K USD, so the universities have a good reason to [...]
Starting afresh in 2008
Its a new year, if you hadn’t noticed, and its that time a lot of folks talk about new year resolutions or wiping a slate clean. Cliche? Thats up to you, but its perhaps a good time do something different from this point and see how it goes. What have you got to lose except [...]
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