What is the Best Way to Prepare for an Interview? (Part One)

Flunking an Interview is so disheartening. Not just because we fail to land the job we’ve banked on getting, but think about all the time and energy we’ve put into even getting in front of the interview panel, particularly if you’ve adopted guerrilla tactics and found a job that didn’t even exist before you [...]

October Commentator of the Month!

Early in August, I asked for your help. I needed a dedicated commentator to beat the talented Chris Mahan (who won in August and September) to the mark of Commentator of the Month, and I would up the ante from the usual $10 to $20. We have a new winner!

Enter Mark McClure (yes, [...]

4 ‘Unusual’ Technology & Computing Uses

1. A friend just showed me that the Apple iPhone is the most sophisticated spirit-level on the market! Wow! It just goes to show how inventive and innovative we humans can be.
The app I was shown is known as ‘A-Level’ and it’s a spirit-level simulator using the iPhone’s motion detectors to determine whether it is flat, [...]

A Review of Mark McClure’s IT Career Engineer

What if I told you that you could exchange 3 hours of your time and just over 40 bucks for all the IT career guidance you’ll need to move from pure techie to IT Leader? You’d think I was nuts, right? Well I wish I had known about Mark McClure’s IT Career Engineer 12 years [...]

Special Report: Why ‘Green’ and Other Niche Causes are Great Career Builders

I’ve just released a Special Report on the subject of Why ‘Green’ and Other Niche Causes are Great Career Builders . If you’re an avid reader of this website you’ll know that I’ve discussed the opportunities that supporting niche causes, and being seen to do so, is a powerful means of raising your profile and [...]

As A Leader, Your Personality Is Everything (Part Two)

Last week I began discussing the subject of Personality , and why it is important to IT leaders. Your personality is your personal brand and it’s how people, particularly your followers, will expect you to behave. Your behaviors are the root of your leadership style, and consistent behavior is what makes that style predictable by [...]

Are Facebook, Myspace and LinkedIn Good For Your Reputation?

Social Networking has become the main game in town for upwardly mobile professionals. It’s standard to find most of your colleagues on LinkedIn, Facebook or Myspace and involve yourself in a social community - groups and activities you share an interest in. Let’s face it, they save you so much time and energy in tracking [...]

Do You Consider Business Readiness as an Afterthought?

You wouldn’t talk to someone who isn’t paying attention. Nor would you make a movie if you didn’t know who would watch it. So why do technology projects often deliver to a Business who isn’t ready to receive?
Business Readiness is a loose term which can mean the Business’s ability to take on what a project [...]

The Winning Reader Entry of the Free Tools Contest Is…

A couple of weeks back I shared with you 35 free tools for IT, developers and business, and asked readers what free tools you like and want to share. Since then I’ve been testing out the entries and I’ve made my choice.
The winning reader entry is: Maria, who writes for her blog ‘Never the Same [...]

When Outsourcing Goes Wrong

Unless you’ve been living on the moon for 20 years, the subject of outsourcing shouldn’t be new to you. It isn’t a new phenomenon but it has grown, as a business practice, to meteroric proportions over the last 10 years. The Indian economy owes much to the practice. And China has been a location of [...]