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 [...]

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

I bet you can’t guess who this is straight away:
Age 23: lost a job
Age 23: was defeated in bid for state legislature
Age 24: failed in a business venture
Age 25: was elected to legislature

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The Hidden Advantage of Disagreements

A popular comic strip once showed a soldier diligently watering a lawn in the rain. When a puzzled passer-by questions the need for a hose during a rain the solder answers he is simply following orders that the lawn must to be watered everyday. And then adds that soldiers are forbidden from disagreeing or questioning [...]

My First eBook Published! The Essence of IT Leadership

I can announce that my first eBook The Essence of IT Leadership (Volume 1) is now ready for you to download!

To download this eBook, hit the new eBooks page under Essential Reading (or just click here ).
You’ll need Adobe Reader to read this eBook (you can download Adobe Reader here if you need it )
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Forrester Research: High-Impact Innovation for IT Leaders

I was lucky enough to go to the Forrester Research IT Forum this summer which I thoroughly enjoyed as it crystallized a lot of my thinking and shone a torch on some important issues. My immediate reaction was to look at the Industrialization of IT , and it’s impact on the workers within [...]

Even The Idiots Amongst Us Practice Leadership When…

If you’re responsible for developing new leaders, or if you’re an emerging leader yourself, then don’t forget that what we learn and experience in our ‘everyday’ lives act as strong reminders that we’re all Leaders.
Leadership isn’t something we tend to switch on and off. It isn’t something we do exclusively in the workplace either. For [...]

How To Search The Invisible Job Market

The Best jobs aren’t advertised in the newspaper or on the web. Much like real estate, the best of the bunch are snapped up before they ever hit advertisements. If you scour job ad sites or the back pages of a paper, then you’re really looking at the jobs the top people don’t want. You’re [...]

Exceptional and Out Of Bounds

Children with outstanding talents sometimes get rewards and acclaim, but many are overlooked, discounted or unsupported. Adults with exceptional talents can also live on the fringes of recognition and contribution to society. Sometimes that is by choice, but often it can result from mainstream discomfort with outsiders.
Even those who are called eccentric may want to [...]