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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 Steroids - 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 [...]