by Kotan Australia | May 25, 2011 | Leadership
Team building is the practice of working to bring a group of employees together. Usually activity days or even activity weekends are planned for these purposes. The hard part is coming up with team activities that have not already been overused. In other words,... by | May 24, 2011 | Leadership
Do leaders play short stop, as a corner outfielder or both? As I was growing up, I always loved sitting down and watching baseball with my father. It is considered to be the all-American pastime. It was not only a favorite pastime of mine to be able to spend time... by | May 23, 2011 | Leadership
When you are CIO you will quickly come to dread (or maybe you already do) the annual strategic planning process for the IT department. Talk about choices: mobile devices, privacy issues, cloud computing – who can pack strategic planning for all of these issues into... by | May 23, 2011 | Leadership
As an FBI counterintelligence agent, I spent considerable time learning about the people I was investigating. The more I knew about them, the better for my investigation. My success—or lack of it—depended heavily on the accuracy of the information and knowledge that I... by | May 22, 2011 | Leadership
In addition to such victims of “industry dissonance” as the late Enron founder Kenneth Lay and CEO Jeffrey Skilling, there seems to be a movement, possibly due to the dramatic economic shifts occurring at the start of the century, where the status-loving,...