One of the most embarrassing events to happen to me is when my boss has asked me why our company website is down. I didn’t know it was down – and it was. Yellow Pages down the pants-time. One easy way I found to get to know first is to use a website monitoring tool. […]
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Management science couldn’t warn Churchill of the strong link between the Leader, Followers and Situation. This is called the Leader Follower Situation Model.
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I’ve often written about Lightworkers and Darkworkers. There are similarities between the boy-hero and Lightworkers I thought might be fun. He trusted his instinct and acted upon it:Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: A New Hope switched off his targetting computer and trusts his instinct when firing that bomb thing into the Death Star. What a guy. Lightworkers
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Asking questions is one of the most powerful tools a leader can use. Young children use questions from an early age to find out how the world, and people, works. The great thing about questions is that they enable a leader to direct and instruct without actually giving directions or instructions, and the result of
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Opinion isn’t one-sided! In response to my recent article on the 11 behaviors most disliked by IT leaders, here are the 12 behaviors most disliked by IT workers of their managers/leaders. This list was created from surveying some of the IT professionals I know and connect with from a number of countries and industries (56
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I’ve just seen this article on CIO.COM which lists the top 10 annoying aspects of social networking, according to PCWORLD. Number 8 in their list is a comment about LinkedIn being ‘uptight’ – the article goes to say:
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