Colleagues not Collaborating? How to become an Organizational Power Broker
Organizations can be complex. The bigger the organization, the greater the complexity. But you can be a power-broker to great effect!
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Stuck In A Rut? No You Are Not
How often do you feel like you’re stuck in your job and can’t find a way to fix it or move on?
Who Would You Throw Your Shoes At?
Did you see the news item where an Iraqi journalist, Muntadhar al-Zaiydi, threw his shoes at President George W Bush? Whether you’re a Bush supporter or not, it’s hard not to see the funny side of this, especially at the skill in which ‘W’ dodged the missiles. [Are these classed as Weapons of Mass Destruction?] …
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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 …
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Leaders Must Exorcise The Curse of Email
I recently wrote about the 11 Behaviors most disliked by IT Leaders, and #9 in that list was: Email-itis – in other words, staff using emails rather than interacting with each other in person. The added hatred was the use of blind copy and the overuse of copy to a wide audience