Is convergence just alignment in fancy dress?
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Leader, Fix Yourself
If your staff isn't doing the work you expect of them, you may be the one who needs to improve your performance.
Leadership Development: for Your Employees, the Enterprise—and You
One-on-one coaching is the best way to develop employees, yet few executives want to do it.
Perfect Isn't Good Enough
Even the perfectly agile IT organization won't satisfy the business side. You must enable their IT capabilities
Flex Time
Your biggest challenge in 2005 is to grow while shrinking. It's not impossible.
Give Away Authority to Gain Control Over IT's Purpose
Why you should separate the what of IT from the how.
Good Partners Make Good Customers
Stop vendor-bashing. Productive relationships are your responsibility.
Albright On Communication, Information And Negotiation
Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright shares her secrets for persuading people even tougher than Larry Ellison to do what you want.
Take A Real Vacation
Live In A Two-CIO Family
Lars Rabbe is CIO of Yahoo; Cecilia Claudio is CIO of Align Technology. They've been married 21 years. Claudio recently returned to the States after a 13-month stint as CIO of Zurich Financial Services in Switzerland.
Bond On Mt. Fuji
The Best Leadership Style? It All Depends.
LEADING QUESTIONS
Different situations require different approaches and skills. What works in one situation can be a disaster in another.
How To Inspire Your Team
A high-performance staff needs your trust, optimism and encouragement
How to Become Better Than You Really Are
Understand your personality type for leadership success.
The Half Full View Of IT
Outsourcing and packaged solutions have hollowed out IT. Yet there's a bright future for ITif CIOs can recognize it.
IT Buyer Beware
Nothing is ever as easy as your vendor wants you to believe. NCCI CIO Jeff Fields suggests you think twice before you sign on the dotted line.
The Dehumanized Employee
IT's dark side lies in its tendency to encourage bosses to see people as bits and bytes.
Time To Change
Catalog retailer Lillian Vernon learned the hard way how critical change management can be to a turnaround.
How To Be A Mind Reader
Learning how to accurately interpret facial expressions isn't easy, but it can make you a more effective CIO.
Reforming California IT
J. Clark Kelso is a CIO with no central IT department and little executive authority. Yet with his skill for reading situations and people, he has calmed a crisis and brought the state's often feuding IT leaders together.
