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Starting a new position is always an interesting challenge, especially if you have a leadership role. It should go without saying that it is very important to start things off on the right foot. While it is possible to recover from all but the most egregious
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Online communities are an excellent way for people to interact with other individuals who they can help or who can help them. For business and technology professionals, they also represent a way keep an eye on trends and thought leadership within
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There are several major challenges to the successful implementation of good information security in many organizations today. It is not because business owners do not think that security is important. No, the issues exist because they do not
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There used to be a time when most IT recruiters were pretty capable and diligent about their craft. Many of them had come from the IT ranks themselves, and understood the technology enough to be able to get good job requirements from employers.
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Lately, I’ve been getting lots of good ideas for blog entries from my participation in various LinkedIn group discussions . One recent topic was about what IT should focus on in any organization. Another was about whether we should
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We live in a society that is different in so many ways from the society that our parents grew up in. For one thing, we are more globally connected. Another point is that sales and marketing at a personal level is more critical for long-term
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For many years, there’s been an interesting joke that the CIO position is a dead-end role. Some have even suggested that the acronym means C areer I s O ver. Recently, I have even seen several LinkedIn discussions that have insinuated that if a
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There is an excellent discussion taking place on the LinkedIn group for CIO magazine under the heading of: Some thoughts on IT-Business Alignment from the Chase Zander IT Director Forum (as influenced by CIO Forum members) So far, there are over 35 responses,
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In 2009, there is no time to complain about how tight and unfair the job market is, or how hard it is to get a resume in the door. There is no more room for complaining about unqualified people using their personal or family connections to get into
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This month, I’ve been reading some really good articles and books on IT Leadership and Project Management, including several books by Bob Lewis , author of Keep the Joint Running . If you consider yourself an IT Leader, you could do much, much worse than
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For many years, common wisdom suggested that the folks in technology were the ones who were least apt to see the whole picture about where the business was going, but were more interested in playing with cool, gee whiz stuff. And, there’s no denying
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Yeah, over the years I've had a few of those, but that's not where I find myself today. Instead, that's the subject of a very interesting question on LinkedIn Answers that asks how people have dealt with this situation. Unfortunately, in today's
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I recently had the privilege of being quoted for a technical article in BizTech Magazine , which is published on behalf of CDW . This is not the first time I have had the opportunity to contribute to an article , but this is the first time
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As you may well know by now, I am a huge proponent of the LinkedIn Network . On account of my many LinkedIn connections, I routinely receive a fair number of invitations to join other business or social networks. For a variety of reasons, the likelihood
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As I think about it, the title is probably misleading, because being a Technology Manager with change-agent responsibility is not the same as being a Technology Change Agent. In my particular case, I'm not looking to change the technology, necessarily.
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