Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders
Leadership and teaming skills are front and center in times of rapid change. Meet today’s constant disruption head on with expert guidance in leadership, business strategy, transformation, and innovation. Whether the disruption du jour is a digitally-driven upending of traditional business models, the pandemic-driven end to business as usual, or the change-driven challenge of staffing that meets your transformation plans — you’ll be prepared with cutting edge techniques and expert knowledge that enable strategic leadership.
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Insight
I don't know about you, but I've begun to notice a pattern in the problems that we have in keeping our secrets lately. Three years ago, a US Army enlisted man stationed in Iraq downloaded 250,000 US State Department cables and then handed them over to WikiLeaks which in turn handed them over to the press.
Executive Update
Managing Customer Expectations: How to Take Care of Perceptions
Aldous Huxley, author of the classic novel Brave New World, once said, "There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception."
Executive Report
Cultivating Effective Leadership in the IT World, Second Edition
Abstract
Leadership is critical to the success of all enterprises. Nowhere is this need more apparent than in the IT world. The best technologists are often promoted and then left without guidance to learn the leadership ropes on the job, resulting in demoralized teams, overbudget projects, and a lack of project direction. This Executive Report argues that a more structured approach to leadership is both possible and necessary.
Leadership is critically important to corporate success, yet it is poorly understood and even more poorly managed as a commodity within most enterprises. Nowhere is this more evident than within the IT community. And while IT professionals tend to view their industry as somehow different from others, our research and experience support the fact that universal principles, behaviors, and capabilities underlie effective leadership.