Dateline: June 20, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Getting the right attention for your ideas is increasingly more difficult in an environment of overwhelmed, over-emailed/texted/interrupted colleagues and leaders. This week's WRAP comes from a recent review in Fast Company of a book by Joe McCormack titled BRIEF: Making a Bigger … [Read more...]
The Intertwined Cycles of Work and Life
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Dateline: May 2, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week's WRAP comes from a new blog written my my friend and writer, Saundra Goldman. Saundra recently launched Creative Mix, which she describes as a curated online studio for and about women stirring up new visions of the artist’s life, offering ideas and inspiration from … [Read more...]
Emotional Intelligence in Your IT Leaders
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Dateline: April 11, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Do your IT leaders have a high level of emotional intelligence (EI)? Recently Sanjog Aul, founder and host of CIO Talk Radio recently interviewed consultant and former CIO Scot Berkey. Scot is also a long time facilitator at the SIM Regional Leadership Forum in Chicago and an … [Read more...]
Managing IT Talent: Building a People Architecture
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Dateline: April 4, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. CIO.com recently published an article about the need to rethink how we manage IT talent. Senior writer Rich Hein interviewed David Foote, cofounder of Foote Partners and expert on the people side of IT management and wrote about building a people architecture. Businesses … [Read more...]
Technical Skills Might Be The Hurdle to Cloud Migration
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Dateline: February 14, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week's thought comes from a recent blog about Bank of America's cloud strategy. Information Week's Chris Murphy wrote a mini-case study titled, Bank Of America's 'Why Stop There?' Cloud Strategy where he examines the bank's strategy for migrating from a data center-based … [Read more...]
Maybe Criticism is the Problem
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Dateline: February 7, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week's thought for the weekend comes from a recent article by Daniel Goleman, Co-Director of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations at Rutgers University and author of a variety of top-selling books. His recent blog at Harvard Business … [Read more...]
Toxic Habits of an Organization
January 17, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: January 17, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. January seems to be a time of taking stock of ourselves and doing a personal inventory of our strengths and our opportunities for growth. Recently, Fast Company published a blog titled, "How to Turn your Toxic Habits into Better Patterns of Behavior" and that caught my … [Read more...]
The Impact of Bitcoin
December 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: December 27, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. The topic this weekend is virtual currency and the rise of Bitcoin. Bitcoin, as you may know, is the hot virtual currency right now. A Los Angeles Times article earlier this month described it's use and it's recent rise in value. Consumers are using bitcoins at coffee shops, … [Read more...]
