Dateline: April 24, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Professors Fabian J. Sting, Christoph H. Loch and Roto Frank Head of Engineering Dirk Stempfhuber recently published an article in Sloan Management Review titled, Accelerating Projects by Encouraging Help, that highlights the importance of managing behavioral issues as much as … [Read more...]
The Importance of Project Sponsors
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Dateline: March 27, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Professors Timothy J. Kloppenborg and Debbie Tesch, from Xavier University’s Williams College of Business, published a thought-provoking research study about project success in the Sloan Management Review. The article, How Executive Sponsors Influence Project Success, … [Read more...]
Minimizing IT Job Frustration
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Dateline: March 13, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently, John Reed, Senior Executive Director at Robert Half Technology, published a short article about 5 Top Sources of Job Frustrations for Your IT Team. He said, In our work with clients, we often hear them mention five sources of discontentment among tech … [Read more...]
Triaging A Bad Work Environment
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Dateline: February 27, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Have you noticed a drop in productivity lately? Does the work environment seem more stressful than usual? Are more of your staff members quitting than the usual flow dictates? In a recent article at Fast Company nicely summarized 3 Steps to Recognize a Poisonous Office … [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...]
The Value of Face-to-Face
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Dateline: November 14, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently Walter Issacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute and author of Steve Job's biography and new book, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution published a column on Linked In titled Why Steve Jobs Obsessed About Office … [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...]
