Letting go of the Details – Part of the Management Challenge
Some of the thoughts that I have been having recently are looking back to some of the challenges I faced many years ago when I became a new manager. As with many people I had always thought myself as an expert, a problem solver, perhaps one of the best in my particular field (even if [...]
2010 a Great Foundation Year!
This is a very personal post and it comes from being reflective as we all are at this time of year (December). It is important to take time to look at what you have achieved and tick it off against that list of plans that you had at the beginning of the year. How many [...]
30 Tips for Building your Social Media Following
This set of tips has been drown together from experience and a few one liners that I have heard during the better part of the last three years. It is curious how one has to live and experience social media life in order learn how to best assist others: Help someone each day, in some [...]
When Publishing in 30 Hours is One Day Too Late!
There once was a time that getting an article published the next day meant you would have to be a staff journalist with the lead story in your hand. In today’s world of Internet publication and publishing on-line is now the normal route to get many items of interest out to the world at large. [...]
Like, but No Dislike! How should we disagree?
One of the features many Social Media sites have added to their application is an ability to signify that you like the item posted. The idea is to allow other people that you know that there is a post that you approve of which may encourage them to take a look, increasing the popularity of [...]
Personal Goals and What we Can Do to Encourage them.
Much of what is written about leadership today concentrates on what the leader can do to empower a team to achieve success. Yet a part of that success is about addressing the personal needs and desires of each member of the team. Those personal needs may include non-work goals, for example Alex is attending baking [...]
Financing the BI Solution: The Corporate Architecture and Complexity of Data Links
This series is looking at the financial factors of building your BI solution. Most larger corporations today already have some form of business intelligence in place so the interest here may be more in applying these principles to upgrading your solution. Yet surprisingly there are always greenfield solutions being applied is some corner of the [...]
Delivery & Success – It is All About Setting Goals & Reaching Them!
Historically it has been shown that successful people all set themselves achievable goals and then work out a plan to succeed. Whenever it comes the time for the annual performance review, or even our new years resolutions, we often set ourselves unreachable targets then fail to monitor our progress against these. No wonder many feel [...]
Speaking: It is Our Opening Words that Count.
When we look at the skills we are born with and the ones that we learn during our youth we find that, at least in professional fields we spend more of our time communicating through the written word than we do through talking. Yet talking is perhaps our earliest skill, yet many live in fear [...]
Google Wave – A First Look
Having just completed an exciting meeting with my business partners on Saturday afternoon. I found an interesting email glaring at me from my inbox, “Your invitation to preview Google Wave“. My first thought was here was another hoax, no with a little investigation I do discover that this one is for real. You can imagine [...]
Free: How Can Free Digital Services Make Money?
Is there something missing in the on-line concept of free? There is a view that everything on-line should be free. The New York Times introduced their on-line news totally free, yet The Times (from London) actually charges an on-line subscription and there is additional benefit provided to the reader. Which is the right model? Perhaps [...]
Social Media Deployment: It is a Business Decision to Make
About a year ago on this forum I asked “Is any Business Benefit Gained by Adopting Collaborative Technologies within the Workplace?” much has changed in the intervening time which has led me to go back and look at my earlier article and comment on the changing workplace. I stated: “Research has shown that in most [...]
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