All Entries in the "Personal Development" Category

Workaholics Are Not Role Models

A CEO of a reputed organization once said he has been working more than 90 to 100 hours a week for many years, and jokingly adds he should have done more. And in another reputed car manufacturing company dozens of employees and managers get cash rewards and appreciation certificates for not taking a single day [...]

How Do Business Analysts Measure Their Value?

Business Analysts are the fulcrum that turn an idea, problem or opportunity identified in the business into something that IT can engage with and deliver. So BAs generally deal with work whose inputs are less easily defined and therefore measured. So how do BAs measure their value?
Take a look at BAs who are working in [...]

Five Self-Marketing Tips for Information Technology Employees

I used to be like you - a shy, modest, hard working IT engineer who’d little time for what I supposed to be those self-serving sycophants scrambling up promotion vines in the corporate jungle
You know the ones. They’re on first name terms with most middle and some senior managers (including [...]

Punch Above Your Weight! Drop Some Business Steriods - Get Your CIO Career Plan

CIOs don’t become c-level through luck - so why put your career to chance?
Silicon.com have just run this story to highlight the important of having a career plan. CIOs don’t let their career become a game of wait-and-see, but they actively plan for it. But many people don’t do this, but instead meander their way [...]

Seven Ways to Look Busier and Keep the Axe from Falling On Your Head

Many of us are nervous about the future - are there job cuts around the corner? Well here are seven ways to appear busier! Don’t be at the top of the list of people in for the chop.

Roll your sleeves up. And I mean this literally. Sleeves rolled up sends a message that ‘I am busy working’. [...]

How To Successfully Articulate the Meaning of Technology

One of the most difficult tasks as a Technical Professional is helping non-technical people to understand technical subjects. Do you struggle to get your point across sometimes? Probably, Yes. Is in an art form? Yes I think it is. So is there an approach which can help us? Yes, and I will share it with [...]

Don’t Underestimate the Dicey Art of Escalation!

A general dictionary defines escalation in many ways like, “Increase in intensity, magnitude, bypassing the immediate person, and so on.” Applied to workplaces escalation is usually a formal process in many IT and non-IT projects. For example, if certain employees are unable or unwilling to do a certain activity they are accountable for, then it [...]

Grab This Unconditional and No-Strings Offer Of Support Through These Hard Times

I know how hard these times of uncertainty are. I remember the DotCom boom, and the DotCom bust.  In the days after the bust in the early 00s, the prospect of technology jobs looked bleak - worse than now I believe in fact. You might have seen photos of a developer standing by the roadside [...]

How To Use Your Connections to Increase Your Productivity and Overall Success

Being a freelance web developer, I rely very heavily on my personal and business connections and relationships, and odds are that you do too. Having a lot of connections and/or references and friends “in the business” can be extremely helpful to anyone, but it’s really what and how you interact with these people that makes [...]

The Most Inspiring Book I Have Ever Read! Peter Drucker’s ‘The Effective Executive’

This is a Bold Statement, and one I will stand by for some time. This book is quite literally, amazing on many levels. The first level is the obvious one, it is an enjoyable read. The second level is that it is easy to read and well structured. The third level is that it was [...]