This project is a doozy. It involves your new manufacturing and shop floor system—one of those systems with complicated real-time controls—and everything’s coming apart at the seams. The budget is running way over. Your team is missing deadlines. Your stakeholders are disappointed with the quality and functionality that is supposedly complete. And nobody can agree […]
Last Sunday’s broadcast of the Oscars closed out the awards season in movie land—and not a day too soon! Over the past couple months, all the stars gathered time and time again to honor what the movie industry regarded as its best creative work from the previous year. And let me tell you—they would not […]
Are you leading your team to greater recognition, or keeping them (and yourself) in obscurity? My apologies for this somewhat rhetorical question. But the facts on this are pretty simple. Build a name for yourself and suddenly your team gains gobs of new attention. Avoid the spotlight and you and your team remain in IT […]
Two weeks ago I put forth the position that the reason IT leaders don’t get what they want from their careers is because they don’t really know what they want. (Read about it here.) To help prove or disprove my position, I reached out to CIO Insight readers and members of my personal mailing lists […]
The reason most IT professionals don’t get what they want is because they don’t know what they want. Think I’m pushing it? Does it feel to you like I’m being a bit heavy handed? OK. Go ahead. Ask yourself: What do you really want from your professional career? What do you most want to achieve […]
