Cover photo by Matheus Bertelli on Pexels.com How Not to Design a Meeting I was talking with a colleague the other day who shared frustrations about a recent meeting. Well, to avoid burying the lede, this is about a meeting that never happened. So today I wrote this lessons learned post on how not to design a meeting. Imagine a director from a large tech company comes … [Read more...] about How Not to Design a Meeting: How Team Project Review Went Wrong and Demoralized a Team and How Not to Repeat the Mistake Yourself.
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Star Trek Books: 3 Books, 9 Takeaways for Business Leaders
Star Trek Books: 3 Books, 9 Takeaways for Business Leaders All science fiction shows reflect their time more than they do the future they purport they depict. Star Trek has been a symbol of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, well, you get it. All the way to the 2020s. So far. Three Star Trek books from Insight Editions/WeldonOwen offer deep insights into the processes and … [Read more...] about Star Trek Books: 3 Books, 9 Takeaways for Business Leaders
5 Ways Companies Get Return-to-Workplace Policies Wrong
5 Ways Companies Get Return-to-Workplace Policies Wrong Even Zoom is asking its employees to return to the office twice a week for those living near an office (see, Even Zoom is making its staff return to the office on CNN). Just asking people to return to work doesn't make sense. The employees know it isn't about being productive because we are still productive, perhaps … [Read more...] about 5 Ways Companies Get Return-to-Workplace Policies Wrong
Why Trying to Future-Proof Anything Will Fail
Why Trying to Future-Proof Anything Will Fail I recently decided to retire the paper copies of the hundreds of pages I wrote for trade magazines and academic publications over the last few decades. As I read through these articles on Computer Integrated Manufacturing, AI, mobile computing and other topics, it became clear that any attempt to future proof anything will … [Read more...] about Why Trying to Future-Proof Anything Will Fail
The CIO Role: What Type of CIO Do You Want To Be?
Categorizing the CIO Role Analysts like to categorize. As reported in a 2016 Wall Street Journal article, Korn/Ferry categorized CIOs into four groups: I think those categories have dated. But more importantly, CIOs are not defined as much by their traits as by their circumstances. In an ideal model, perhaps every role in every company perfectly aligns … [Read more...] about The CIO Role: What Type of CIO Do You Want To Be?