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Dr. Jim Anderson takes a look at just exactly who is better at multitasking: men or women IT managers. Dr. Anderson explains how some long-held beliefs have been found to be flat-out wrong. He also goes on to finally reveal if any of us are really good at multitasking. To get more information on how … Read more
One of the biggest challenges that modern IT leaders face is how to do a good job of managing their IT team. The burden of making the right technology decisions, managing budgets, and meeting the needs of the rest of the company is challenging enough, but what can make or break a manager is how … Read more
Dr. Jim Anderson has uncovered a problem that IT managers need to do something about — they don’t know how to professionally network! Dr. Anderson explains how you can restart your professional network and he offers 3 steps that you can take to update old or out of date contact information. To get more information … Read more
Talk about whining! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been working with newly minted IT managers who come to me and complain that people aren’t listening to what they say. A little bit of digging on my part and I discover that they’re part of some sort of cross functional team or that … Read more
Dr. Jim Anderson has discovered that IT workers don’t seem to have any company loyalty anymore! Dr. Anderson explains that the arrival of the Generation Y workers has changed the role of loyalty in the modern workplace. Now workers can be loyal to a manger or a great project, but an IT manager needs to … Read more
When I’m working with IT managers, all too often I see them trying very hard to get things “just right”. I know what they are thinking. They believe that if they can get things set up correctly, then the team that they are in charge of will just run itself. I guess that they might … Read more
Dr. Jim Anderson has uncovered a problem that IT managers need to learn how to deal with: girl fights! Dr. Anderson explains what motivates women to bully other women in the workplace. He then identifies two steps that IT managers can take to put a stop to this type of action. To get more … Read more
I’ve got some bad news for all of you IT Managers out there: it turns out that 25% of the best workers in your IT team are planning on leaving within the next 12 months. Not to depress you even more, but it turns out that those internal job change programs that you have perhaps … Read more