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The single best tool to improve your productivity: I'm not a big believer in time management programs and tools. I find that while most people understand them conceptually, they never get the big improvements expected when they were putting them into place.There are always exceptions of course. However, as a success coach, I try to provide...; Tags: Tools, Time Management, Planning, Organizational Time Management, Methodology, Management Style, Management Skills, Long Term Goals, Leadership; Blog posts 2007-08-02
Should the CIO be a technologist or a business person?: A chief information officer CIO must have multiple personalities in order to effectively do their job.Â They are required to have a personality that demonstrates that they are the company's leader in information technology IT.Â This means that they must have an understanding of the all of the technologies necessary...; Tags: Strategic Planning, Responsibility, Personnel, Management Style, Management Skills, Leadership, Knowledge, IT Management, IT, General, Executive, CIO, Essential Personnel; Blog posts 2007-08-02
People Performance: Can You Believe What You See?: When we are observing the behavior and performance of our people can we really believe what we see?In 1927, the theoretical physicist Werner Karl Heisenberg developed the uncertainty principle. The uncertainty principle states that, at a microscopic level, it is impossible to know both the momentum and position of a...; Tags: motivation, micro-management, IT Management, Decision Making, Management Style, Management Skills, Management, CIO, Leadership, Career, Personnel; Blog posts 2007-07-24
3 tips to improve your executive presence: One of the most frequent issues clients ask me for help with is "executive presence". It's one of those beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder issues to some extent. What works for some people is a turnoff to others. Approaches or styles which are considered appropriate in one organization may be the...; Tags: Team Management, Personal Development, Performance Appraisals/evaluations, Management Style, Leadership, General, Career, Business Intelligence; Blog posts 2007-07-20
Was Terry Semel the wrong guy for Yahoo?: On paper it looked pretty good. When Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang brought Terry Semel aboard as that company's ceo in 2001, most of the pundits hailed it as a decision to use the right guy and the right time. The dot-com implosion was still burying other formerly superstar...; Tags: Personnel, Objectives, Monitoring, Management Style, Management Skills, Leadership, General, Career, Business Intelligence; Blog posts 2007-07-16

How's your career?: I'm frequently asked for tips and tactics which people can use to be certain they are making the most of their career. Obviously there are many lists and books out there on the subject. And based on those, it seems there are many "experts" who can provide the...; Tags: Preparedness, Personal Development, Performance Metrics, Management Style, Long Term Goals, Leadership, HR, Career Path, Career, Business Intelligence, Accountability; Blog posts 2007-06-21
2 big impediments to successful leadership: A while ago I was brought into a company to work with a vice president-level executive who, I was told, "may not make it".Â ThisÂ isn't my favorite type of coaching work.Â InÂ my businessÂ it'sÂ termed "remedial coaching".Â I think the Human Resource field coined that term; having never come across it in coaching...; Tags: Listening, Management Skills, Management Style, Career, Decision Making, Leadership, Business Intelligence; Blog posts 2007-06-14
Political Infighting â€“ what a great thing!: Many companies bemoan the fact that they have so much infighting.Â Often they'll bring in a management consultant or a leadership coach to "fix the problem".Â They'll ask us the equivalent of, "Why can't we all just get along?"Â Â IÂ usually surprise folks with this opinion â€“Â sometimes this kind of infighting...; Tags: Practices, Power, Politics, Personnel, motivation, Management Style, Management, Leadership, Knowledge Retention, Job Roles, HR, Executive, Empowerment, Delegation, Decision Making, Change Management, Career, Business Intelligence, Blogroll; Blog posts 2007-06-07
Most managers die with their mouths open: Great leaders ask lots ofÂ questions. They've figured out that their success depends on it.Â For a while it seemed that thisÂ was widely accepted; however lately I seem to be running into moreÂ execs who are concerned they will look dumb if they let their subordinates, peers or bosses see that they...; Tags: Team Management, Power, Management Style, Management Skills, Management, Leadership, Career, Business Intelligence; Blog posts 2007-06-01
Managing poor time managers on your staff: Susan Ward, writing in the newsletter Small Business: Canada, identified five personality types that can sabotage time management. They are:The Fireman -- Always handling the latest emergency; has no time to plan.The Over-Committer -- The one who cant say no. Seems like a great person to have around until you...; Tags: Time Management, Methods, Management Style, Management Skills, Management; Blog posts 2007-05-10
How to destroy a project team in four easy steps: This will be a short blog entry this week. My wife just gave birth to our first daughter and Im not thinking too much about project management or work. Really, Im not thinking about anything other than sitting around looking at the marvel my wife has brought into...; Tags: Uncategorized, Management Style, Management Skills, Violation Of Trust, Wisdom, Management, team; Blog posts 2007-02-10
Tony Dungy provides a great example of how to lead with respect: Yes, sports are a great metaphor for life, but they are also a reflection of the larger society, and that makes me hopeful after watching the worlds most famous sporting event last night. With the Indianapolis Colts winning Super Bowl XLI (thats 41), Colts coach Tony Dungy is being widely...; Tags: Leadership, Management, Management Style, Tony Dungy; Blog posts 2007-02-05
Do you know magic?: At some point in their career, every IT professional has been associated with magic of some sort—as in: “Work your magic for me ….” In fact, its quite common for IT professionals to be portrayed as "wizards" as in the comic strip Shoe of their profession. When most of us...; Tags: Management Style, Managment; Blog posts 2007-01-28
The role of the project manager in a crisis situation: A project manager I trained years ago called me the other day. It was pleasant to catch up with an old friend, and interesting to hear how his career developed over the years. Unfortunately, he did not just call me to catch up. He had a very...; Tags: Accountability, Assumptions, Career, Choices, Empowerment, Knowledge, Management, Management Style, Project Manager, team, Troubleshooting, Trust, Wisdom; Blog posts 2006-12-13
My "Push-Me-Pull-You"management pledge: If any of you have listened to National Public Radio lately, you know that they are airing a series called "This I Believe," in which people speak about what they strongly believe in one of their own undeniable truths--in essay form. Today I’m putting a slight twist on this, and...; Tags: Push-Me-Pull-You; Blog posts 2006-12-10
The practical results of competitive stress: I recently stumbled across a discussion of “competitive stress”; the growing tendency to show off by talking about how much stress we have in our lives. Its a no-holds barred competition where the person with the worst demonstrated psychological trauma wins. Since its an intangible competition, it ends...; Tags: stress; Blog posts 2006-11-28
At the center of the bulls-eye: An interesting management concept was presented to me the other day that I thought was thought provoking enough to share with you. I do not know the exact source of the idea so it may be something you have heard of already, but it was new to me. Picture five...; Tags: Management Style, Management Skills, Management, Ramon Padilla; Blog posts 2006-11-05
25 ways to get promoted: I just finished reading an article describing 20 qualities that are designed to get you from the server room to the corner office on the top floor. While I don’t necessarily disagree with the 20 qualities described, my first thought when reading them was – perhaps it’s not everyone’s goal...; Tags: Management Style, Leadership, Management Skills, It Management, Develop, corner-office, information technology; Blog posts 2006-10-29

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Lenovo denies ditching Linux: Lenovo flip-flops on Linux. I wonder what's really going on.Is this really a case of mistaken announcements, or suddenly changed policy, or what? The backpedaling sounds kind of suspect, what with the statement that you have to get your own license for a Linux install but they'll install...; Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Notebooks, Linux, Chinese Style; Discussion threads 2006-06-06
Style Sheet Chooser II (xpi): Style Sheet Chooser II allows you to choose author-provided alternate style sheets for a Web site, and have those choices be persisted for all pages on the same site. Style Sheet Chooser II replaces Firefox's built-in style sheet switcher - its functionality is available via the [View]&[Page Style] menu item,...; Tags: Style Sheet, Hark, Style Sheet Chooser II; Software downloads 2007-09-26

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