5 Reasons Why Your Boss Hates You
Why is your boss giving you so much grief? Here’s why…
March 2009
Freelancers: Get Client Wow-Factor By Managing Expectations
Want to know a secret of how to make your clients say Wow!? Is it about bells and whistles? Do you do it by providing comb-bound booklets? Or is it about *really cool* slide masters when you do a powerpoint presentation?
Not For Sony Fans…
I am a Sony Fan, but if you are a true Sony brand aficionado then you won’t want to see this extremely funny video I found on YouTube. It’s a spoof news rip off which will split your sides! Check out the guy outside the store! To counter the balance, I did do a favorable …
The 10 Habits of Highly Effective IT Professionals – Reviewed
My latest eBook ‘The 10 Habits of Highly Effective IT Professionals ‘ is out now. Beat colleagues to promotion… Become a top performer… Become highly paid… Impress your CIO… Build influence and authority…
The Conundrum of High Salary
Do you get hung up on how much you earn? Is your salary the most important measure to you in terms of defining your success? For most people, that is true. We’re socially conditioned to think that way. Seth Godin recently published a post ‘The myth of big salaries (it’s all marketing) ‘ claiming that …
Lead Well and Prosper!
I’ve written before that if management was a true science, then there wouldn’t be so many books on the subject. Do a search on Amazon for management and you’ll see thousands of books on the subject. How do you pick books when there are so many to choose from? Hopefully, I’ll give you a start. …
Should You Take a Lower-Level Job?
This is a burning question on the lips of many IT people who are out of work, or want to move on from a dead-end job. Should you take a role that you consider beneath your abilities and talents to get into the workplace again to put food on your plate? Most of us work …
I Hit the 300 Post Mark!
I just noticed that I’ve hit the 300 post mark. So it’s a landmark day. (Any excuse to break out some champagne). But what next? I started this blog in it’s current guise a year ago, and it’s been quite a journey. Like most bloggers, I started by dabbling, and then when onto rambling, progressed …
No Spam For Me, Thanks
I could be setting myself up as a spam target now…. In January of 2009, this blog received 1,455 comment spamming attempts, which my spam filter (Akismet) foiled. The most attempts in one day, so far, is 105. Thank God for spam filters! I’ve been lucky – nothing has gotten through yet. There are messages …
Become an IT Professional Using Your Passion
I get a number of emails each week (especially from students) asking what the best way is to get into IT. There is rarely a simple answer to this (everyone is different, and everyone’s situation is different) but there is one thing I do come back to often as a sure-fire way to create the …