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On Attitude
Approximately two years ago, in my class on Authentic Leadership, we read an article (can’t find the citation–sorry!) on how having a positive attitude led to better working results in every single...
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On Correction
One of the greatest challenges in management is correcting staff, especially when you’re somewhat annoyed at them. While it might feel really good to vent your anger by stalking into your geek’s cube...
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On My Values
My values as an IT Director and as a human being: Everyone is equally deserving of my respect (until they do something pretty extreme to lose it). My staff, my co-w0rkers, the end-users at my firm, my...
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On Transparency, Part II
My apologies for the 2-week gap; I’ve been developing content for a blog that will launch mid-May. But on to the subject: transparency. Again. In Part I, I discussed opening up my master project list...
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On Caution
I’m not a particularly cautious person. I’m the person in the room who wants a quick decision and subsequent quick action. I get bored discussing alternatives after a decision is made, and a slow...
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On Skepticism
At the ILTA ’09 conference in August, I attended a couple of sessions by Jason Dorsey, the Gen Y guy. At the second of his sessions, he mentioned a service online that helped people find couches to...
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On Interviewing
I have to admit that I find the process of interviewing prospective candidates for a job to be an odd mix of exciting and nerve-wracking. While I absolutely love getting to know people and thinking of...
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On Termination
Firing a geek should be the most difficult task for any Geek Leader. If it’s not, the leader should consider that he or she might be too angry to be rational about the situation. I would personally...
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Jumping on the “WTF Yahoo!” bandwagon (re: working remotely)
I realize that pretty much everyone is writing about the Yahoo! work from home debacle (hi Jim!). Just in case you’re living under a rock, here’s the salient part of the memo: Image via CrunchBase To...
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Useless Feedback
English: Angry cat (Photo credit: Wikipedia) An email ruined my weekend. (And I’m still mad.) It was an email filled with extraordinarily useless feedback, including completely false accusations. The...
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