Dateline: June 21, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Transitions are part of the fabric of organizations. Leaders move on and new leaders take over. A recent Harvard Business Review article, It's All About Day One, by IMD Professors Michael Watkins and Suzanne de Janasz, and former Unilever executive Kees van der Graaf, explores the … [Read more...]
CIO’s Equation for Strategic Influence
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Dateline: June 14, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Trust and influence are critical success factors for any leader, including the CIO. A recent blog by Michael Krigsman explored ways CIO gain strategic influence inside their organizations. His blog, CxO Talk: Trust, engagement, and influence for the CIO, suggests, The equation is … [Read more...]
Telling The Story with Data Visualization
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Dateline: May 24, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Inferring meaning from data is a problem usually solved by BI and analysis, but recently I read about using data visualization for some large, complex problems. Harvard Business Review associate editor Gretchen Gavett blogged about her conversation with Linda Boff, GE's executive … [Read more...]
Management is Not Leadership
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Dateline: May 3, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. John Kotter, a former professor at Harvard Business School, has spent over 40 years studying businesses and those that lead them. In 1990 he wrote a classic article for the Harvard Business Review about the difference in leaders and managers, titled What Leaders Really Do. Recently, he … [Read more...]
Leading Change Takes More Than Just a Great Leader
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Dateline: April 5, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. A recent blog on the HBR Blog Network (published by Harvard Business Review) featured a thought piece entitled, "Change Management is Bigger than Leadership" by Wharton Adjunct Professor Gregory Shea and his associate, Cassie Solomon (they are authors of a new book, Leading Successful … [Read more...]
Brainstorming Doesn’t Work
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Dateline: March 29, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. A recent Fast Company article, Why Innovation by Brainstorming Doesn’t Work, caught my eye. Author Debra Kaye shared some thoughts on innovation from her recent book, Red Thread Thinking. She begins by saying that “anything, even doing laundry, will help you dream up new ideas … [Read more...]
Not Everyone is a Leader
March 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: March 15, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. A recent blog at Forbes by leadership mythbuster Mike Myatt challengingly titled “Why You’re Not a Leader” suggests that not everyone is suited to lead, even if they want to be a leader. Everybody thinks they’re a leader – most are far from it. The harsh reality is that we live in a … [Read more...]
Lunch Roulette
January 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: January 11, 2013 Welcome to the Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. January is always a time of renewing promises and setting goals for the coming year, and many write about resolutions. One common resolution is to broaden our personal and professional networks. This week’s WRAP is about one company’s solution to facilitate this. Harvard … [Read more...]
Developing a Competency in Conflict Resolution
January 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: Friday, January 4, 2013 Happy New Year! Welcome to our Friday WRAP 2013! This blog is a spinout of the IT Leaders Forum. Each Friday, we publish a short blog, with a link to something found around the web, and a though provoking question for the weekend. The Friday WRAP has been around in a private mode for several years, but today, we launch the public version. The beginning of … [Read more...]
