...more comes from real-world experience of what didn’t work so well. Let’s get started. The Three Principles of Management A lot of management comes down to just three basic principles....…
...fiascoes, and what you can do to avoid that fate if you’re on the hot seat for bringing your company into SOX compliance. At the KJR Conference last March, Jeff...…
...solution is to form steering committees to make them with full business involvement. But better than the usual solution are to form councils rather than committees. The difference? Committee members...…
...commented, “The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any...…
...we did. We didn’t optimize processes, orchestrate them, or develop metrics to assess their performance. We obliterated them, replacing them with computer programs that called on humans only when an...…
...when American managers whined about Japan and how you couldn’t compete with it? Well, guess what? Now we have Microsoft. Microsoft is a formidable competitor, largely because Bill Gates sticks...…
...gain, and have the most to lose when the company changes how it does business. Worse, many executive compensation systems reward exactly the wrong behaviors. As to employee resistance to...…
...income, for example.) Want more proof? Listen to what people gripe about. IT’S NEVER THEIR SALARY! Employees complain about office politics. They complain about too many meetings. They complain about...…
...create many more jobs in IS/IT each year than we graduate computer science students. Where, the doomsayers ask rhetorically, will the rest of the talent we need come from? Answer:...…
It happened again this year. For the sixteenth consecutive year since I first started publishing on a regular basis, not one graduating class invited me to be their commencement speaker....…