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Mentoring Benefits, Up and Down

June 21, 2020 • Features, Management Practice • dladmin • Comments (0)

Once upon a time mentorship meant an informal relationship where the organization’s emeninces gris might take under their wings someone more junior in whom they saw talent or potential. They would provide guidance, connections and some wisdom at key points in a career. The only thing the mentor might get out of it, other than [&hellip...

Staying Out of the Project Bermuda Triangle

January 18, 2017 • Management Practice • dladmin • Comments (0)

Balancing the Governance Triangle Project managers know well the Iron Triangle of scope, schedule and budget. We are all familiar with the way that a poor balance ricochets around, weakens the other corners and ultimately degrades quality. But poorly...

The police clearing Nørrebrogade, Copenhagen

Cybercreeps and Cybercrats (Part 1)

March 13, 2016 • Management Practice • dladmin • Comments (0)

Part 1 – What Is Cybersecurity and why should you care? I think of myself as a maker. Nothing pleases me more than when I deliver to the user and hear “Oh, this is better.” Even a simple macro, to know I’m making somebody’s...

CIO, Remember We’re In Business

August 9, 2015 • Management Practice, News • dladmin • Comments (0)

The H1-B visa can be a political hot button, with some people saying there are too many issued and decrying the jobs lost to foreigners. Others who have difficulty finding employees with technical skills join the annual calls to raise the cap. All...

Ending Email

January 8, 2015 • Management Practice, News • dladmin • Comments (0)

I was all cranked up to rant against the swelling tide of email. “How long, oh lord, how long must we put up with this evil scourge?” and so on. I was only away from my desk for two working days over Christmas yet it took most of a morning...

CU Soon, Women in Tech

December 6, 2014 • Management Practice, News • dladmin • Comments (0)

In support of a worthy cause, no question, but even most of those who come to “Women in Technology” events must question their point. What are women to gain from the lectures, panelists and kumbaya? It’s the men who have something to...

Managing the Number of Managers

July 6, 2014 • Management Practice, News • dladmin • Comments (0)

Michael C. Mankins writes on HBR’s site that a VP makes work for two other people. By implication, the cost of hiring a manager at that level is not just that person’s employment costs but those of the two others as well. Mankins’ graph shows this...

Managing For Heartbleeds

May 17, 2014 • Management Practice, News • dladmin • Comments (0)

So you had your corporate web servers updated with the patch, pow-wowed with your vendors and other partners to make sure everything was contained, and when you caught a breath you changed your online banking passwords (I mean, you did, didn’t you?);...

Develop the Leaders, Kicking and Screaming

February 15, 2014 • Management Practice, News • dladmin • Comments (0)

A HBR blog post entitled “Develop the Leaders You’ve Been Overlooking”, by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman, argues that in every organization there are de facto leaders, the valued and respected contributors with deep knowledge and experience, who...

Sunsetting Systems In the Name of Innovation

October 22, 2013 • Management Practice, News • dladmin • Comments (0)

CIO tells us that we should split our IT budget about 50/50 between maintenance of systems and new projects. Most companies find that pretty hard to do. The operation is what’s driving revenue today, so we apply resources to maintenance tasks instead of...

Cognitive Bias In the IT Department

October 20, 2013 • Management Practice • dladmin • Comments (0)

HBR’s article on cognitive bias is part of a decade-long trend. Memes like “Everything you know is wrong” appear in songs, books and movies; popular books like Malcolm Gladwell’s “Blink” and David McRaney’s “You Are Not So...

Mobile Advertising Might Just Work

October 17, 2013 • Management Practice, News • dladmin • Comments (0)

An article in VentureBeat reported today that iOS ads make money whereas ads on Android ads cost more than they bring in. It looks like Wanamaker was right when he said “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t...

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Management Practice
Category Archive

Mentoring Benefits, Up and Down

Staying Out of the Project Bermuda Triangle