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So You Want To Be An IT Leader?

If you’re an experienced IT ‘Subject-Matter-Expert’ now interested in adding a management/leadership role to your professional skillset, CIO Simon Stapleton has written a useful 24 page e-book on “The Essence Of IT Leadership Vol 1“.

I downloaded and read it in about 30 minutes and here are some comments on what I’ve learned, written from a [...]

The Best Business Book I Have Ever Read

For nearly 2 years (while I was in CCIE “do or die” study mode) all I ever seemed to read were Cisco Press books. And even now my forearm muscle memory cannot forget carrying those 500(!) page books on 2 hour round trip commutes in crowded Tokyo trains, with one hand on the hanging strap [...]

Goal Setting 2008 - Another Armchair Replay?

Are you reading this and wondering when I’m going to ‘drop the hammer’ about setting career goals for 2008, and how you’re wasting your time with New Year Resolutions etc?
Nope, not this time.
Instead of looking forward, I want you to look backwards. (Pay attention - because this is heresy in most coaching circles).
Imagine you’ve just [...]