Wednesday | 9 July, 2008
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Insider's Guide to Executive Coaching 08 September, 2005 11:10:58
Truth be told, I was asked to be a coach before I knew what one was. Fortunately my ignorance wasn't career-limiting, because no one else knew eitherSix ground rules for successful coaching engagements. - +
The 'Off' Switch 07 July, 2005 08:00:00
Time-pressured decisions (and the behaviour that accompanies them) will erode your effectiveness and your sustainability as a leader. Yes, the world seems to demand a short-term focus, but at the same time, we are expected to deliver the results of long-term thinkingLeaders need to think, and you can't do that if you're always on - on call, on duty and on guard - +
Leader, Fix Yourself 05 April, 2005 09:43:40
Before you can revise your behaviour, you have to identify it. You can do this by first considering how you might be contributing to any given problem. Through honest self-criticism, you will almost always find something worth improving uponIf your staff isn't doing the work you expect of them, you may be the one who needs to improve your performance. - +
How to Inspire Your Team 08 March, 2005 10:38:33
You can be intense and relaxed at the same time if you are confident in yourself and those around you. Just as you can sense this tension in athletes when the game is on the line, you can sense it in a leaderA high-performance staff needs your trust, optimism and encouragement - +
How to Wow Your Board of Directors 09 November, 2004 10:55:13
If you're making a presentation intended to persuade the group to do something, the most important tool you have is evidenceYou've got 15 minutes to make a presentation to the board. Here's how - +
Fear of Transparency 06 October, 2004 13:01:53
IT loves new technology and typically invests too much, too early. Many times, these Buck Rogers-type investments are made at the expense of more fundamental operational issuesFive excuses CIOs make to avoid practising what they preach - +
How to Achieve Your Vision 06 October, 2004 10:40:02
To provide the team with a vision of the future, we produced an eight-minute film re-enacting cumbersome tasks and demonstrating how business would be improved if we got the project doneThree skills you need to get the job done - +
Open Ear Policy 06 August, 2004 10:58:38
IT management has to deal with the fear and uncertainty that many IT professionals are feeling as a result of the stampede toward offshore outsourcing. Even employees who have not lost their jobs thus far are worried about the futureIf you want to retain top IT talent, ask them what they like and don't like about your organization. And then act on it - +
The Ties that Bind 12 July, 2004 12:50:18
The challenge of letting go of transactional leadership exists at every level in organizations: when moving from a team member to head of the team, from manager to executive, from departmental executive to CEOTo succeed at the next level, leave the day-to-day details behind - +
How to Build a Great Team 10 May, 2004 14:20:16
People will rally around leaders who do the right things consistently. They know they can count on their leaders to be open and honest at every fork in the road and to take a stand regardless of the personal riskFour leadership qualities for getting things done - +
The Joy of Leadership 10 May, 2004 14:27:39
There is really only one obstacle to finding joy in leadership: ourselves. Joy is always there, but we may have blinded ourselves to it or not let ourselves pursue itDon't let the work kill the wonder - +
How to Read the Signs 07 April, 2004 13:49:53
Consider, for example, the dotcom craze. In the late 90s, anyone who didn't buy in just didn't understand. By 2001, it seemed obvious that everyone who had bought in just didn't "get it"What you can do to lead your organization down the path of technological change - +
Meet the New Boss, Not the Same as the Old Boss 10 March, 2004 12:31:50
A new boss will want to put his or her own stamp on the organization. Demonstrate your openness to the changes. Now is not a good time to be defensiveHow to handle the changes under a new chief - +
IT Leadership in 2010 06 February, 2004 09:29:02
The first skill that will be required for great IT leadership is pattern recognition. In essence, this is the ability to see underlying relationships and get at "the meaning beneath the surface"The skills that CIOs will need to win the game - +
About Face! 08 October, 2003 10:42:53
Now is the time to plumb the depths of your resourcefulness and reach for a flexible leadership style. First, repeat after me: The greatest plan, unimplemented, is not worth the paper it's written onSometimes changing direction midstream is the best display of leadership.
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CIO Live Podcast #79: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires Part II 05 October, 2007 06:00:00
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #78: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires 28 September, 2007 17:34:25
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #77: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part III 21 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part three in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #76: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part II 14 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part two in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #75: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part I 07 September, 2007 07:00:05
Part one in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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Citibank debit card fraud highlights ATM vulnerabilities 08 July, 2008 08:17:53
'Back-end servers are kind of a joke,' and the trouble doesn't end thereMalicious ATM intrusions, such as the late-winter breach that resulted in the compromise of Citibank debit card data, are not at all surprising given the vulnerable state of many of the servers and other components involved in processing such transactions, according to some industry representatives. - +
How to not have your Web site hacked like Sony's 07 July, 2008 08:23:22
A SQL injection attack was used to plant malicious code on pages of two popular Sony Playstation games - SingStar Pop and God of War, reports security company Sophos. Hundreds of Web pages from other businesses have also been compromised.The US Sony Playstation Web site is the latest high-profile victim of a hacker attack on business sites that's spreading malware at breakneck pace, says a security vendor. - +
AG launches review into national e-security 07 July, 2008 11:07:49
Howard's security agenda dragged over coals.A review of Australia's top e-security projects lead by the Attorney-General's Department has been launched to scrutinise the Howard's government's $73 million E-Security National Agenda. - +
Selling zero-day exploits has a down side 07 July, 2008 10:16:36
There is an ongoing argument about the ethics of selling 0-day exploits on the open market: It helps if you don't sell exploits targeting the company you work for.Information Security can sometimes be a funny field to work in. Some days it seems as if anybody with their hands on unpublished exploit code can sell it for all they're worth, and others it seems that they are set to become the target of law enforcement and the companies the code affects. It does help if you don't work for one of the companies that is set to be affected by the exploits you are trying to sell and aren't trying to bootstrap a competing company in the process. - +
'I have a lost laptop horror story for you' 30 June, 2008 10:08:14
The devil of identity theft is in the details that follow...The devil of identity theft is in the details that follow: Russ Jones tells a tale of woe that isn't particularly dramatic -- or rare -- and yet it's exactly the kind of story that worries me enough to ignore my better judgment and buy identity-theft protection from my insurance provider.
Symantec Data Protection Solutions Preferred by Users and Industry Experts 09 July, 2008 11:56:00
Frost & Sullivan: Australia’s Mobile Advertising Spend to Grow 300 Per Cent in 2008 09 July, 2008 07:57:00
DIARY ALERT - Symantec data leakage prevention seminars 08 July, 2008 17:20:00
Dimension Data Appoints New National Human Resources Director 08 July, 2008 16:58:00
Kingston Technology 1800MHz HyperX DDR3 Memory Wins Intel XMP Certification 08 July, 2008 14:28:00
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