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Jul
ChatGPT vs. Authenticity: Navigating the Impact on Business and Leadership
Imagine waking up in the middle of the night, struck by a brilliant idea for a blog. You quickly jot it down, adding a few...
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Jun
Navigating Change: Digital Transformation at a Century-Old Company
In the fast-paced and ever-evolving world of technology, it can be challenging for century-old companies to keep up with the changing times. These organizations often...
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Jun
High-Performing IT Teams: The need for communication and trust in complex environments
Why communication matters. Many people, especially in IT, believe that optimizing communication and dialogue is difficult and nebulous, often leading to touchy-feely conversations they would...
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Mar
How to Identify and Combat “Role Creep”
Creating a new team is exciting and challenging for any organization. When I had the opportunity to form a shared services team to support the...
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Jan
Genuine Care at Work
Why care? A lot is written about leadership traits such as vision, integrity, resilience, positivity, accountability, and even humility. It is my opinion that genuine...
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Dec
The Secret Support Team for IT Leaders: Goal Closers
IT teams must constantly adjust to end-user demands, budgets, timelines, and other constraints. Such a dynamic environment requires leaders to understand how to close out...
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Jun
Want to Accelerate Change? Slow Down and Observe Team Dynamics
Originally presented at SIM Connect Live 2019 (“Make Winning Normal: Maximizing Agility with High-Performing Teams”), the following concepts offer a new way for IT organizations...
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Mar
Traditional vs Transformational: Breaking down the differences between IT leadership archetypes
As a company embarks on a journey of digital transformation and immense change, the expectations of IT leaders change as well. Two general archetypes have...
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Feb
Avoid These 3 Traps When Intervening On Team Performance
How is it that some people can inspire us to strive for greatness while others turn us off? For me, one of those amazing leaders...
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Jan
The Power of The Sprint in Managing Team Performance
During a sprint, many Scrum teams focus on action items, story points, ceremonies, and sprint length. They often overlook the importance of the sprint itself...
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Jan
Making Empowerment Stick
Let me know if this sounds familiar: You talk about empowerment with your staff, at skip levels, and at town hall meetings. It’s a concept...
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Nov
One for All or All for One? Instilling Team Ownership
As any good manager knows, a team infused with a strong sense of responsibility will produce a higher quality outcome. Instilling ownership across a team...
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