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Now that we’ve discovered that all humans, including those in in your IT department / on your IT team, respond to four basic drives, we are now faced with the really big question: how does an IT leader use this knowledge to motivate his/her staff? It turns out that there are actually a number of … Read more
We’ve talked about the fact that sometimes employee motivation can be a lot like performing brain surgery – you’ve got to be careful or you’ll end up doing a lot of damage. If an IT manager can realize that their staff (indeed all humans) have four fundamental emotional drivers that need to be met, then … Read more
As those of you with sharp eyes may have noticed, this blog is now sporting a shiny new badge over there on the right-hand side from the good folks at Alltop.com. They have added us to their listings of blogs and so I wanted to thank them for doing so and, of course, let you … Read more
A great deal has been written on how IT workers can deal with getting a new boss. For that matter, a lot has been written on what you need to do if you become the boss of a collection of IT workers. Shucks, I’ve even written a lot about how to find out what you’re … Read more
Dr. John Median is a developmental molecular biologist who recently sat down with the Harvard Business Review and had a talk about what we’ve recently found out about how the brain works and what this can tell us about being better IT leaders. The key question that IT leaders want to get an answer to … Read more
We spend a lot of time talking about how to be a great IT leader; however, the one thing that we’ve skipped over (until now) has been how to “manage upward”. This convoluted phrase was invented because it got to be too tiresome to keep saying “what can I do to make sure that my … Read more
Over the weekend I moved the “IT Staffing & Motivation” blog from its comfortable home at Google’s Blogger to a brand new home at a self-hosted WordPress site called, www.theaccidentalITleader.com. Those of you with sharp eyes may have also noticed another small change – I changed the name of the blog to “The Accidental IT … Read more
Well, sorta. How about if it turns out that the really smart folks who do brain surgery have found out a great deal about how the human brain works and we can use this knowledge to come up with new ways to motivate our IT staff? It turns out that everyone (that includes both you … Read more
Quick review, here’s how the generations and their cool marketing names break down: The Silent Generation (ages 63-81) Baby Boomers (ages 44-62) – 80 million strong Generation X (ages 27-43) – 59 million Millennials/Gen Y (age 26 and under) – 80 million! The Millennials have entered the IT workforce in large numbers and yet there … Read more