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• Every cost-cutting decision has a consequence -- even the easy ones

  Dear Bob ... After reading your columns on companies looking for ways to cut costs, I would like to share a bit of contrary cost cutting. We were acquired a couple of years ago. Prior to that, management had always provided coffee service. Our new owners discontinued it at the start of the new fiscal Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 14, 2009 7:55 PM from Bob Lewis's blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: policies and procedures, office politics, Tech industry analysis, Adventures in IT

• If headquarters cuts costs, what's your obligation to "do your part"?

  Dear Bob ... What do you think of a company where headquarters, in order to cut costs, reduces or eliminates some essential core services? And then when those of us out in the field have to take care of them ourselves and try to build them into the budget, get complaints, namely, "We did our part to Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 14, 2009 1:43 PM from Bob Lewis's blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: office politics, Adventures in IT, Financial results, career management, business ethics

• With a new boss, the smartest way to be smart is to be quiet

  Dear Bob ... I'm the CIO in a mid-size company (~750 employees left after layoffs; 50 in IT). I report to the CEO. As of this week, I report to a different CEO than I used to report to, because the Board of Directors fired the last one ("left to pursue other interests") and his replacement just came Read More... Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 2:02 PM from Bob Lewis's blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: office politics, Adventures in IT, IT management

• Should a CIO take a cut to part-time status?

  Dear Bob ... A month or so ago you gave some advice to "Unhappy, with choices," who had been offered two alternatives: take a 20 percent pay cut or accept a severance package (" Choosing between a buyout and a salary cut ," Advice Line, 3/1/2009). read more Share Post: Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 07, 2009 12:16 AM from Bob Lewis's blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Adventures in IT, career management, organizational effectiveness, Career advice