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Stop Blaming Bad Management On The Recession

The nightly news is full of reports on companies going out of business or struggling during this difficult economic period. Its natural and convenient to place the blame for what has transpired on the recession we are now (hopefully) beginning to climb out of. However, digging a little deeper into the operations of some of [...]

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Technical Decisions and Being Right

In managing technical teams, an IT leader will routinely be in a position of making decisions between two or more competing technical views, systems architectures or proposed solutions.  As “the decider”, you may consider yourself fortunate to have multiple choices presented to you by your staff, as >1 options would seem to increase the likelihood [...]

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What is “Pragmatic IT Leadership”?

Wiktionary:
pragmatic
Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory
Synonyms
(practical): down-to-earth, functional, practical, utilitarian, realistic
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For me, Pragmatic Leadership includes:

While remaining current on the latest practices and emerging trends; determine what will best work for my organization, at this discrete point in time.
In regards to vendor/partner management; be honest about successes and failures, both internal and with my partner, with the primary goal of [...]

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