business leadership

Is Your Boss Leading or Cowering

October 16, 2011

Look around where you work. Is there a plan and are people focused on working the plan? Or are people sitting around, scared, keeping their heads down when management comes near and grumbling when they’re not around? The answer to that question clearly tells you the quality of your leadership team.

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The First Thing You Need to Know About Leadership

July 21, 2011

Here’s the first and perhaps most important thing you need to know about leadership: IT ISN’T ABOUT YOU! If you want to lead people, they have to want to follow. Think for a moment about those bosses you enjoyed working for with. See what I did there? The best bosses are those who work with [...]

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7 Steps to Hiring a Great IT Candidate

May 16, 2010

One of the most overlooked leadership skills is hiring. Hiring is one of, if not the most important decisions we make as managers. Yet, very little time is spent teaching us how to hire successfully so we are left to do the best we can. Most of us take a canned job description, post it, [...]

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So You Want to Be an IT / Security Manager…

May 8, 2010

In my last post I suggested that anyone considering the leap to management first consider at least three things: Why do you want this job? Money won’t fill the void Know yourself and what you enjoy If you do this job for money or prestige (ha!), then you are most likely very unhappy. So why [...]

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3 Things to Consider Before Making the Leap to Management

March 28, 2010

I think one of the toughest professional transitions is going from a technical subject matter expert to management. This is a tough transition for many reasons, not the least of which is that the two jobs require completely different skill sets. The same thing can be said of an accountant or a marketing specialist, but [...]

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