Dateline: August 28, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Let's be right up front about this...most people quit because they can't tolerate their boss any longer. It's not usually the task or the pay (although a job with more pay may accelerate the importance of issues one has with their boss). Recently, Peter Diamond, coach, author … [Read more...]
IT Leaders and IT Managers
August 14, 2015 by Leave a Comment
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...]
The Delicate Path of Managing Legacy Systems
August 7, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: August 7, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. 'Legacy systems' is not a dirty term, but it may seem so. Recently, Michael Krigsman, a popular ZDNet blogger on IT Project Failures, wrote a thoughtful piece about how CIOs must lead their companies through the delicate path of managing legacy systems, since they get in the way … [Read more...]
Civility and the CIO
July 17, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: July 17, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. We spend lots of time with our workers, some of whom are a pleasure to work with, and others..well not so much. Recently the New York Times published a thought provoking opinion from journalist Christine Porath titled No Time to be Nice at Work that explored this subject. She … [Read more...]
Do You Work Too Much?
January 31, 2014 by Leave a Comment
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...]
CIOs Must Get it Right on Day One
June 21, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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...]
Management is Not Leadership
May 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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
February 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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...]
