...along the way, and one-on-one selling to managers throughout the enterprise. When you can’t dictate you have to communicate and deliver benefit. How about CoPs? As self-organizing entities they have...…
...Commander Spock, only without the hand gesture and “live long and prosper” expression of goodwill. If this is you … if you think you have to rein it in so...…
...innovation and learning—And this is something we can help with in IT, but you need to be the inspirational leader to help others get there. # # # Not to...…
...what they are, the chance of improving on them is slim.) For an excellent source of information on this subject, check out the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL — http://www.itil.co.uk/)....…
...responsibility, and in fact, defining and implementing culture is one of the eight tasks of leadership. How to go about it? While the short, informal definition of culture is how...…
...Thank you, thank you, thank you. KJR recently covered the same point (“Join the party,” 5/7/2007). You can lead without being competent or insisting on it in your organization. Accomplishing...…
...drives a Bentley, another a Maserati, and Mercedes and BMWs are commonplace, your Lexus is just basic transportation. Luxury is comparative, not absolute. If anyone can have one it isn’t...…
...aligned to a common purpose … intrusion and theft. Maybe loose aggregation vs hierarchy is the inevitable difference between organizing for offense and organizing for defense. So never mind information...…
...will, and you still won’t have anyone to take over payroll maintenance. Compensation and incentives plan: Depending how you count, the best programmers (for example) are between five and fifty...…
...a small organization, the job is reasonably simple because you can take the time for conversations with each and every one of them. If you lead a thousand-person IT organization,...…
