Posts Tagged with "Office Politics"

Social Design for a Virtual Organization

Monday, April 13, 2009

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At South by Southwest, Brazen Careerist author and CEO Penelope Trunk was quite emphatic that, when starting a new business, having a geographically distributed team is rarely possible. She said this on her panel, as well as again when we spoke in person. She was a strong advocate of the notion that, for the first [...]

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Sneaking Web 2.0 in the Back Door

Friday, February 6, 2009

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This post was originally written for and published on Social Computing Magazine. Those of us in the Web 2.0 space who come from a technology background are often a little stunned when we discover that it is frequently our IT cohorts who pose some of the biggest obstacles to prospective enterprise implementations. After all, wouldn’t [...]

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Why I Love Project Management

Friday, January 9, 2009

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Throughout my career I have held roles with all kinds of titles, but in the end, at my core, I am a project manager. That is how I see myself and how I tend to identify, no matter what my formal title. And it’s for a very, very simple reason: there is one constant in [...]

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Boss Lesson #3: Don't Get Emotional

Monday, December 22, 2008

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One of the biggest lessons I learned from working for Dave wasn’t just what I learned from him, but that I came to understand the importance of timing because of him: there were so many things I learned from Dave only because I was at a point in my life where I was open to [...]

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A Christmas Card to My Bosses: Thanks to Three Very Wise Men

Sunday, December 21, 2008

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Last week I wrote that we are rarely good about telling the people in our lives how grateful we are, and, realizing that applied to me as well, I figured that this was as good an opportunity as any for me to correct that when it came to three important influences in my life. As [...]

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Managing the People or the Technology

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

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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 [...]

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