In the world of IT Management there are typically two types of leaders: “IT Professionals who Manage” or “Managers who work in IT.” A nonsensical distinction to some, I’m sure, but in the IT world, it is always a big source of debate. How often do organizations promote their rock star developer or engineer to [ Read More ]
A recent study conducted by BlessingWhite shows that a full one-third of over 2,000 supervisors interviewed “don’t have time to coach” their direct reports. While I find nothing inherently surprising in that statistic, I do find the reasoning behind it fundamentally flawed: the reason that supervisors “don’t have time” is because they have not made [ Read More ]