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Total CIO – PMO becomes cornerstone of IT executive leadership
Linda Tucci wrote an interesting article on Total CIO titled "PMO becomes cornerstone of IT executive leadership" that got my attention. The title is a
Links for December 13 2009
CIOs need ‘both/and’ strategies for 2010 not either/or choices by Mark McDonald on The Gartner Blog Network Unlocking the Passion Paradox by Kevin
Improving IT Planning in 2010
Just finished reading Chris Curran's article on CIO.com titled How to Improve Your IT Planning in 2010 - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership. Good
CIO's – Are you hearing your team say No?
In a previous article titled "Leading by saying No", I implore CIO's to lead their organization by saying 'no' whenever necessary. As I said in that
What's your passion? Find out and Crush It
I asked "What's your focus?" last week and now I wanted to ask another question: What's your passion? I picked up Gary Vayernerchuk's book Crush It!: Why
Links for December 6 2009
You Can Only Lead the Horse by Amber Naslund on Altitude Branding Leadership – What’s Love Got To Do With it? by Terry Starbucker on TerryStarbucker.com
Employee Engagement – how it affects you
Some interesting research results being reported over on Fistful of Talent by Lizz Pellet who is the Chief Culture Officer at EMERGE International in a
CIO's – what's your focus?
Early this week, I asked a question to my readers (and myself). The question was "What's your focus?" and immediately after publishing the post, I read a
What's your focus?
What's your focus? Have you ever stopped to ask yourself this question? What are you focused on in your life or your job? What's your focus for the
Links for November 29 2009
Why Social Media Purists Won’t Last by Jason Falls on Social Media Explorer Reliability vs. Validity by Mark Howell on Strategy Central The Led Zeppelin
Book Review: Andrew McAfee's Enterprise 2.0
Just finished reading Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest Challenges My review in two words: Excellent book! Whether
Links for November 22 2009
Leadership and Leverage by Steven Levy on No Secret Social Software 2.0: Enterprise Process Ubiquity by Hutch Carpenter on I'm Not Actually a Geek Taking
Do it or Don't....just stop talking about it
I've got a few pet peeves. Linear Thinking is one of them. Another one is talking about doing something but never doing it. I'm not talking about 'not
Links for November 15 2009
Skin In The Game by Chuck Musciano on The Effective CIO Disposable people? A question raised in Cannes by Mark McDonald on The Gartner Blog Netwrok The
Consultants and the CIO
This is a short one....lots going on this week. I got a lot of great feedback on a post I wrote titled "Consultants - Do we need them?". In that post I
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