AI and the Practice of Management

Dateline: October 28, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. According to Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, the practice of management is about to change in a big way, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI).  He shared his thoughts in a recent Sloan Management Review article, Using Artificial Intelligence to Set Information Free.  Reid … [Read more...]

IT Leaders and IT Managers

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...]

Do You Work Too Much?

Dateline: January 31, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This is our last week to officially explore personal leadership topics, although I can't promise that we will avoid these topics in the future.  This week's thought comes from Harvard Business Review's Blog Network. Duke University Adjunct Professor Dorie Clark posted a blog … [Read more...]

Management is Not Leadership

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...]

Hiring for Teams: The Whole Foods Approach

Dateline February 8, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently Fortune Magazine published an excerpt of the new book by Whole Foods CEO John Mackey and colleague Raj Sisodia, Conscious Capitalism, describing key components of the Whole Foods management philosophy.  A key part of this philosophy is the hiring and management of … [Read more...]

Critical Project Management Skills for IT

Dateline: February 1, 2013 Welcome to our  Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Project management is a critical role for every IT organization.  But putting the right person in the role of project management is often an art, rather than a science.  A recent article at CIO.com, by Jennifer Lonoff Schiff, 7 Must-Have Project Management Skills for IT Pros, … [Read more...]