Change

In this piece, Becoming a Change Leader, May 8, 2007 CIO  <http://www.cio.com/article/108351/Becoming_a_Change_Leader>,  Maya Townsend, founder and principal consultant of Partnering Resources, introduces four key factors which she argues are crucial to successful change initiatives: 1.  Active, committed leadership — if you are not committed why should your staff commit? 2.  A clear, compelling business (not technical) […]

Today’s reading the “The ‘Pull Leadership’ Manifesto” by Stever Robbins, founder and president of LeadershipDecisionworks.  This piece from the Harvard Business School Working Knowledge Archives caught my eye because of its thesis:  “We need leaders who inspire others to follow, who engender loyalty.”  Robbins calls this “pull” leadership and then goes on to identify twelve key […]

This week we return to Rick Brenner’s Chaco Canyon newsletter for the column “Asking Brilliant Questions“.  Throughout the leaders program we encourage participants to ask questions:  You do that as you are being present, you do it in meetings to draw out information from your colleagues, you do that as you coach.  In this column, […]

David Storm, in the January 2007 issue of InformationWeek calls our attention to “Five Disruptive Technologies to Watch in 2007“.  In the piece, Storm calls our attention to RFID, Web Services, Server Virtulization, Advanced Graphics Processing, and Mobile Security, all technologies that have been available to one extent or another for a number of years.  […]

Who’s Sorry Now? http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16816&ch=infotech Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief of MIT’s Technology Review, reviews Pip Coburn’s “The Change Function:  Why Some Technologies Take Off and Others Crash and Burn.” Coburn was managing director of the technology group of UBS Investment Research during the technology run-up of the late 1990s.  While his focus in on customer’s […]

In a pieces spread over three issues beginning in late January NetworkWorld discusses the IT profession in the year 2010      http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/edu/2006/0123ed1.html      http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/edu/2006/0130ed1.html      http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/edu/2006/0213ed1.html   Based upon Gartner report, the articles suggest that “technical aptitude alone will no longer be enough”, IT leaders will need to possess expertise in multiple […]

  I really enjoy reading Rick Brenner who writes the email newsletter  from Chaco Canyon Consulting.  The last two issues of the newsletter  has focused on tactics for tough times:        http://www.ChacoCanyon.com/pointlookout/060201.shtml        http://www.ChacoCanyon.com/pointlookout/060208.shtml   In these two pieces Rick focuses on problem solving:      – What problem as I […]

A West Coast colleague passed this URl along earlier todayhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/22/text.iq/index.html A concrete, perhaps, result about the impact of letting yourself be interrupted throughout the day. And, an interesting comparison with which to end the week. Have a great weekend……….jim

The January 28th edition of CIO carried an insightful column by John Baldoni about motivation in the workplace.  I think tht you will find it interesting. …….jim http://bestnetarticles.blogspot.com/2009/09/donts-dos-of-creating-inspir…

As I was reading the current issue of Fast Company, I ran across a longer column reporting on a conversation with Joe Kraus on what he now knows.  Kraus was a founder of Excite that in 1996 became one of the biggest tech IPOs ever.  At 33 he is not starting Jotspot, a hosted Internet […]