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 [...]
Business Change & Decision Making: Who Should Lead?
“If driven by IT, the decision is more focused on operational and architectural considerations than business requirements.” This is a comment that seems to have been doing the rounds recently in one form or another. Lets examine more closely to see who should be responsible for project decision making. Actually the information technology department must [...]
So You Wish to be a Future CIO! What Skills are Essential?
Many a CIO will have started their career being passionate about one or another aspect of computer technology. That may be business analysis, programming, quality assurance, project management, building networks, architecture, or a focus on hardware. Generally speaking IT is passionate about change. At the start of your career you learn how essential it is [...]
80% of Business Leaders make Critical Decisions without Full Information
Today we have more information at our fingertips than we have ever had before, yet informed decisions are not always made, when they should be. Every critical decision made in business should always be made on the basis of information, statistics and analysis. Although this is a staggering statistic, it has been stated before that [...]
Do Corporations have to think about International Law/Treaties?
Google recently announced that it will no longer censor search results on its Chinese site. The sad aspect about this affair is largely the fact that that Google has been prepared to limit freedom of speech for some of its users. China has signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and therefore has a duty [...]
Virtual Teams, Project Slippage & The ‘Fear Factor’
One of the biggest challenges in managing remote, or viurtual projects, has always been one of communication and collaboration. From the management perspective it is not possible to simply walk down the corridor and see the fear in people’s eyes: not fear of physical harm, but the fear that you are going to ask them [...]
“End of Year Rush” Business Planning Alleviates the Need.
About a year ago in an article on IT Toolbox I asked whether the “End of Year Rush” was really necessary. I concluded that “Change the business culture – from one of ad-hoc, last-minute requests to proper planning of the work is essential”. One year on and this question continues to have relevance with some [...]
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 [...]
Wisdom & Leadership – A Required Combination?
We concentrate on improving the knowledge of professionals in our workforce and rightly so because without an educated workforce we fail to deliver value to our businesses. Yet knowledge itself should not be the ultimate goal. Continuing education is vital and formal or not, it pays to have an edge in your decision making. It [...]
Leadership: Understand the Needs of the Business, Not Simply Technical Brilliance.
A couple of weeks ago I talked about the Thirteen Qualities of Leadership which skimmed over many of the qualities required for good leadership. Today I want to expand on just one of those qualities our ability to focus on the need of the business, and not simply demonstrating technical brilliance. Irrespective of your technical [...]
Your IT Department – To be disposed of? Or a Necessary Change Agent?
I have heard recently several comments that an IT department should be dismantled as a department and assigned to every other part of the corporation. If there were only a single source suggesting this then I would name and shame them here, but sadly there are many who persist with this errant vision. I also [...]
What has LUCK got to do with Success?
I have been reading CEO Material by D.A. Benton and in the Chapter titled “You Feel Broadly Adequate” she talks of confidence and asks the question “What Does Confident Look Like?” She state you can choose to have confidence, agreed and she lists a number of qualifying attributes that add to your confidence, one of [...]
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