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Insight
Seemingly interminable meetings are often struggling in the "groan zone," Sam Kaner's wonderful term for the time period in which meeting participants are trying to understand each other.
IT Needs a New Image
IT has traditionally had three broad categories of functions: setting technical strategy directions for the company, building and supporting business applications, and assembling and supporting the company's technical infrastructure. Although each of these functions remains relevant and necessary, the concept that they are best performed by an internal IT organization is becoming demonstrably obsolete.
The other day, I broke a 12" x 12" x 1" pine board with my bare hand after listening to a 90-minute motivational talk about breaking barriers to achieve goals. As someone with martial arts training, I was less impressed with my own success than I was with the success of a 12-year-old in the group of parents and children.

