Dear Diary I did the following things this month. Met fourteen different IT vendors who gave an impressive high impact presentation on how their products and services can guarantee cost effective, cutting edge, optimized, and seamless, business value in tune with our strategic goals. Rejected three vendors as their presentations were not in line with …
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Question: Does completing an MBA give you a ticket to success as a business leader? Answer: No, it doesn’t. The virtues of an MBA are often hyped and rarely understated. So why is it such a big deal? Well the average MBA will cost a student 25K UKP/50K USD, so the universities have a good …
To MBA, or not MBA… that is the question? Read More »
Where does a leader get power from? A leader can use 5 sources of power: here’s advice on when these powers should be used, and perhaps when not
Take a moment to read this article in this month’s Information Age (in fact I strongly recommend you subscribe to this magazine). The article discusses research conducted by the magazine and a software vendor which assesses the gap between senior IT executives and business executives, in terms of their opinion of critical business issues. One …
The gap might not be so big between business and IT after all… Read More »
Getting yourself noticed by senior management or executives maybe easier than you think. These people, like all people, are human beings. I’ve found that if you treat them that way, you have the best chance of getting to know them, and hopefully raising your profile. The most effective way I have found is to take …
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A number of people have said that one of their biggest issues when moving up the career ladder is knowing how to give up control of the ‘detail’, i.e. influence and decision making of technical matters. To some people, its losing their edge – their very basis of power and expertise. I think this can …
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