Enabling Executive Excellence

2010-11-20T12:55:00.001-05:00

15 Most Popular Interview Questions. Only 4 provide insight into your candidates work habits. Do you know which ones? http://ping.fm/lxgaz

2010-10-16T17:32:00.001-04:00

HR Analytics are coming to your company. Are you ready to make the cut? http://ping.fm/q7vw9

2010-10-16T17:22:00.001-04:00

Fights and strong disagreements at work are unavoidable. There are right ways to handle them. http://ping.fm/WxIiZ

2010-10-14T19:22:00.001-04:00

What it takes to be an effective leader is so obvious and yet so hard to achieve. http://ping.fm/qEhGx

Who Can be Worse Than Your Cable Company?

2010-07-20T18:41:00.002-04:00

People hate FaceBook more than the airlines and their cable companies. As news goes, this is a real 'man bites dog' story! http://ping.fm/0F2S4

Are You Missing the Revolution?

2010-07-20T18:37:00.004-04:00

IT leaders are repeating the mistakes of the 70's and 80's and missing a seismic shift in technology and behavior. As PCs supplanted dumb terminals and keypunch machines while creating incomparable and unforeseen benefits to consumers and businesses so will mobile and tablet devices supplant PC. http://ping.fm/7u2iz

Are You Motivated to Create?

2010-06-24T16:06:00.002-04:00

What really motivates us, and how modern businesses still do not manage brain work(ers) properly
http://ping.fm/yevWP

Who said CIO stands for Career Is Over?

2010-06-07T12:08:00.002-04:00

Who said CIO stands for Career Is Over? The CIO of today will be the CEO of tomorrow. http://ping.fm/vi8RT

Why Business People Have Such a Low Regard for Techies

2010-05-03T18:09:00.002-04:00

It is with the simple oversights that techies drive business people nuts with http://ping.fm/0mOq4

Protecting the CIO Turf

2010-04-27T12:22:00.002-04:00

One of the great dilemmas that will face CIOs into the future is whether the role of a CIO is to protect BIG internal IT projects or source out to the cloud? http://ping.fm/RmUkm

This one question will test any CIO's true commitment to alignment with the business. After all, if as a CIO one's first and foremost commitment is to increasing the value of the business, then the great efficiencies that will accrue from sourcing services in the cloud cannot be escaped.

How Do Good Intentions Go Bad?

2010-02-23T12:38:00.002-05:00

Ignore your customers to find out. http://ping.fm/bx4m8

The Influence of Zealous Employees

2009-11-23T09:55:00.002-05:00

What happens when your employees care more about your products or services than your customers do.
http://ping.fm/1uIpp

A Peaceful Harmonious Workplace Is Bad For Business

2009-11-20T10:46:00.003-05:00

According to the latest issue of the HBR in an hyper competitive world it makes no sense to sugar coat the realities of business or life for that matter. http://ping.fm/a29el

Team work completely devoid of conflict is bad for business. A harmonious work environment adds little or no value to a business. Notions such as alignment can create disengagement and fear of conflict even in the face of very real threats to an enterprise, when alignment if defined and enforced as means of creating universal agreement. Complacency is one of the biggest predictors of poor company performance. It is best to strike a healthy balance between alignment and competition in order to get the best out of people. Not everything is worth fighting over. Conflict must be fair. Conflict should be around issues that materially affect the future, or game-changing opportunities. Leaders are key to ensuring free, fair, and open conflict that benefits all members of a team.

Satisfaction Does Not Boost Performance

2009-10-09T10:46:00.002-04:00

Does your boss need to be your cruise director or your partner in success?
http://ping.fm/h6grn

Executing Strategic Communication

2009-10-03T16:34:00.004-04:00

Lessons learned from how the financial melt-down was handled one year ago. While this little gem of a post is focused on Washington D. C. there are many lessons here for any one who is concerned with strategic communication; and in particular for any one who needs to communicate strategic change and transformation. http://ping.fm/OkABL

Catch A Wave!

2009-10-02T17:37:00.004-04:00

What if we could have conversations on-line in real time as easily as we do in person while being able to add and comment on rich ancillary content, and to top it off be able to save it all? Here is a quick introduction to how Google will revolutionize communication and collaboration: http://ping.fm/k1Acw

Social Media Another Fad?

2009-09-23T18:16:00.004-04:00

84% of Social Media Programs Don’t Measure ROI!

Nothing kills off a good idea faster in today's business environment than not being able to show economic benefit for an activity, tool or technology. Companies need to very carefully define their expectation for social media before jumping in. While social media may be a tool of choice for customer engagement, it should be treated just as any other technology based tool and be subject to thorough ROI analysis.

http://mashable.com/2009/09/22/social-media-programs-roi/

Information Wants Top Be Free

2009-09-15T15:24:00.003-04:00

Just when I was getting sour on Google, they go and do the right thing http://ping.fm/V75Gu

150 Years of Change in How and Where we Work

2009-09-07T19:02:00.002-04:00

Appropriate for today. Reported occupations U.S. labor force 1850 - 2000
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What is A Customer?

2009-09-01T19:53:00.002-04:00

Great definition of a customer via @CFSPlaybook
http://ping.fm/E21QG

Why Few Executives Are Skillful Managers?

2009-08-27T19:20:00.002-04:00

The relentless pressure for results means that many executives fail to leverage what they learn from executive development seminars and their executive coaches.

http://ping.fm/1FKNu

A List Is Not a Plan

2009-08-17T19:29:00.000-04:00