Dateline: November 20, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. When asked about your biggest weakness, is your answer honest or designed to impress? A recent article in Harvard Business Review by HBS Professor Francesca Gino, suggests that most of us would answer in a way that she calls humblebragging. For example, the answer to the … [Read more...]
The Inspiring Leader in All of Us
November 13, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: November 13, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. At KP Partners, we love leadership-oriented readings that spark new ideas. Recently we ran across an article at Harvard Business Review that made us think differently about inspiring leaders. Nick Tasler, researcher and author of Domino: The Simplest Way to Inspire Change, … [Read more...]
Giving a Speech is Simply a Type of Conversation
October 30, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: October 30, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. One of my favorite people, Dr. Nick Morgan, is also an extraordinary speech coach who writes a very interesting blog, published on his Public Words website, for anyone who speaks publicly, or even attends speeches. Recently, Nick wrote a blog about How to Prepare for a Speech … [Read more...]
Leadership 101: The Importance of In-Person Meetings
October 2, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: October 2, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week's thought comes from a recent blog published at FastCompany.com titled "The Science of When You Need In-Person Communication," by author Laura Vanderkam. In her article, she suggests, Human beings had little ability to communicate with those who weren’t physically … [Read more...]
IT Leaders and IT Managers
August 14, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: August 14, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Leaders and managers - both are critical roles for successful IT organizations. In my leadership development programs a must read is business guru John Kotter's classic HBR article on the topic. But more recently, I noticed a popular blogpost on LinkedIn's Pulse site written … [Read more...]
The Delicate Path of Managing Legacy Systems
August 7, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: August 7, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. 'Legacy systems' is not a dirty term, but it may seem so. Recently, Michael Krigsman, a popular ZDNet blogger on IT Project Failures, wrote a thoughtful piece about how CIOs must lead their companies through the delicate path of managing legacy systems, since they get in the way … [Read more...]
Good Ambition
July 31, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: July 31, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Ambition can be a good, constructive trait or bad and destructive. A recent Fast Company article explored the Six Habits of Ambitious People, and the difference in healthy and unhealthy ambition. Ambition that leads just to competing for competing sake can actually get in the … [Read more...]
Civility and the CIO
July 17, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: July 17, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. We spend lots of time with our workers, some of whom are a pleasure to work with, and others..well not so much. Recently the New York Times published a thought provoking opinion from journalist Christine Porath titled No Time to be Nice at Work that explored this subject. She … [Read more...]
