Jim recently asked LinkedIn’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) Network Group: With the failure rate of IT projects so high, what should the CEO do about it? Here’s how I answered: Complications go hand-in-hand with complex projects. So, THAT a project runs into problems isn’t necessarily a bad thing – it’s often just an indicator of the …
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I like going into the ‘way-back machine’ to see if what was said then, still makes sense now. To that end, I recently reread a piece called, Beyond Leaning In: What I Learned on the Way to the C-Suite, that was originally published in May 2013. (Okay, so not the waaaaay-back machine, this time…but a good 15 months ago, …
I don’t know much about horoscopes, but today’s caught my eye. Not because of what mine said – I’m a Gemini, which some might say explains a LOT! But because of what everyone’s said. Take a look – straight nines. Across the board! So if you need to ask someone for something, I suspect that today might be …
Kudos to friend and colleague Sally J. Zepeda, Professor in the Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy at the University of Georgia, on the release of her latest book, Job-Enabled Professional Development: Support, Collaboration, and Learning in Schools. Nicely done, Dr. Zepeda! And kudos to me for her including my F.O.C.U.S./F.R.A.M.E. Coaching Model in Chapter …
I get such a kick out of the names of Chicago Hot Dog joints: Mustard’s Last Stand; Wiener and Still Champion; Superdawg; Flub A Dub Chub’s; Red Hot Ranch; Hot Diggity Dogs; Relish the Thought; Dear Frank’s; and U Daw U, to name a few. (See Vienna Beef’s Hall of Fame for a few more.) But …
