Dateline: February 13, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. In a recent article at HBR.org, Professor Herminia Ibarra suggests that leadership identity is something we all have to carefully craft, and all too often we try to be authentic in a way that undermines our leadership opportunities. In her article, The Authenticity Paradox, … [Read more...]
Customers Know What You Should Measure
January 30, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: January 30, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently, my friend and (former) colleague, Vaughan Merlyn published a short but thoughtful blog titled, "What Should We Be Measuring?" In it, Vaughan summarized his thoughts in two insights, Insight #1: If you want to know what to measure, ask your customer what is … [Read more...]
Four P’s of Managing Employees
December 26, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: December 26, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. For the last post of 2014, we are returning to the topic of employee management. This week’s idea comes from Author, entrepreneur and motivational speaker James Bird Guess. In a recent post on his blog titled, Four Types of Employees Every Leader Must Know, he suggests … [Read more...]
Managing Agile
November 7, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: November 7, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week's idea stems from the increasingly fast paced business environment we all operate in. Just when it feels like we have our hands around a project, something shifts and the race is on again to shift with it. Agile development is the current way IT shops manage this … [Read more...]
What CIOs can Learn from Jimmy Fallon
October 3, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: October 3, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently, author, producer and former actor Jack Stahlmann published a blog about the Leadership Lessons from Jimmy Fallon. Jack's insightful perspective is that Jimmy Fallon has found the perfect fit because of his leadership skills (the 6.5 is Jack's schtick): 1. He … [Read more...]
The Title of CIO Could Be The Problem
August 1, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: August 1, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This weeks thought comes from a recent blog at Harvard Business Review about the impact of titles and department names. Professor Robert Plant, from University of Miami School of Business Administration, wrote a blog titled IT Has Finally Cracked the C-Suite. In it he shares … [Read more...]
Counterintuitive CIOs
July 25, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: July 25, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week's idea comes from Heller Search Associates guest blogger, Peter Waterhouse, Senior Marketing Executive at CA Technologies and co-author of a book on service management. Peter's blog, A Digital World Calls for Counterintuitive CIOs, suggests that counterintuitive … [Read more...]
Decision Fatigue and Too Many Choices
July 4, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: July 4, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Decision fatigue, the exhaustion we feel when we have to sort through many options, may be getting in the way of IT effectiveness. Recently, Fast Company published a blog titled, Why Having Too Many Choices is Making You Unhappy. The author, writer Jane Porter, suggests, Too … [Read more...]
Competitive Advantage through Connections
June 27, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: June 27, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week's idea comes from a recent blog at Harvard Business Review online. Blogger Greg Satell's column is titled Strategy Is No Longer a Game of Chess. He suggests, Legendary strategists have long been compared to master chess players, who know the positions and … [Read more...]
