First rule of management: delegate. Easier said than done. For most of us (both experienced old managers and freshly minted ones) the general rule is that we tend to delegate tasks. It’s the exception—or maybe better stated, the exceptional—manager that delegates responsibility. Delegating tasks is (admittedly) easier. There’s always work lying around that needs doing, […]
Net, net: The IT market, for both products and workers, is hot, and there are lots of new opportunities for professional and business growth. The Mixed Blessings of a Hot Market The hot IT market is all well and good if you are looking for a new job, but what if you like your job […]
I see a lot of signs these days that the IT market is hot. I see many people moving to bigger and more challenging positions. I’m being asked to help find senior people more than ever before. I see nice signing bonuses for new employees and promotions for internal people. And, most of all, I […]
Have you heard? In a major national survey conducted by Robert Half (the big employment agency) CIOs are reporting the greatest degree of difficulty ever finding and hiring high-quality IT professionals. I wonder if these are the same CIOs who recently told CIO.com reporters that it was very hard to keep good staff because “they […]
What exactly is IT leadership? Since I spend an awful lot of my time teaching leadership skills to IT professionals and managers, it’s a question I get asked on a regular basis. For a while, I answered the question with a synthesized review of different academic theories of leadership and how these apply to the […]
