We are not super heroes
As much as my appearance in the IT Pro Forum promotional video may indicate otherwise, I am not a super hero. I agreed to participate in the shoot partly because I wanted to renew the ever-important...
View ArticleDoing the right things, not just doing things right
As 2013 gets underway, I have been doing a little reflection on IT leadership. There is a good degree of management in my position, but leadership is more important in the long haul. To be specific,...
View ArticleLeadership at every level means service at every level
The term “servant leadership” came up in a conversation last week, and I thought it would make for a good focus of a new post. Servant leadership may sound like a new term, but it has been around since...
View ArticleManaging your leadership brand
When people in your organization, what comes to their mind? Before coming to my current position, I could confidently say that people in my organization viewed me as someone who believed and practiced...
View ArticleHaving problems focusing? Try meditation
Since this article at the Chronicle got a couple retweets when I linked to it, I thought it would be good to call a bit more attention to it. We spend a lot of time jumping back and forth between tasks...
View ArticleChange, Innovation, and Creativity: What you need, want, and ought to do
I have been a student (courserian?) of the Change, Innovation, and Creativity MOOC from Penn State on Coursera, and it has been a challenge to keep up with the content amongst my existing obligations....
View ArticlePower of storytelling
Storytelling is a skill we begin to practice from as soon as we are old enough to talk. The role of storytelling is both in sharing experiences but also in persuading an audience. We tell stories about...
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Emotional intelligence for inspiring leadership
In another step of trying not to be a serial Coursera class drop out, I have started a small group to go through the Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence class. We’re going to focus less...
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