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Sure, your job is fine for today. However, what about tomorrow? Where do you want to go to next? What IT manager training do you need? Perhaps more importantly, what is it going to take in order for you to get promoted? 5 Management Skills An IT Manager Needs In Order To Get Promoted In … Read more
Let me ask you the question that may have been showing up in the back of your mind even as the global economy improved: should you stay in your current IT manager job or is it time for you to go look for greener pastures? It turns out that what could be a difficult question … Read more
We’ve all seen the movie or read the book where the hero gets three wishes and then spends the rest of their time trying to make the right decisions. This brings up an interesting point for IT managers: if you had 3 wishes that you could use to make your current job better, what would … Read more
Here’s a quick question for you: how’s that IT manager job going? Is this the right job for you at the right time? Are you fully using all of your IT manager skills? Or have you found yourself stuck in a job that isn’t leading you to where you want to get to in your … Read more
When you become an IT manager, the reason that you’ve been able to achieve this position is because you know everything that you’ll ever have to know, right? You’ll never make a mistake again and every decision that you’ll make will be the right decision. Correct? I’m betting that you are probably shaking your head … Read more
So IT manager, what is your life like these days? Are you dealing with long hours at work, demanding leadership and customers? Internal departments who don’t want to talk to you let alone do what you need them to do? I guess the concept of finding inner peace must seem pretty far away most days. … Read more
For far too long the role of IT managers within many companies has been almost an afterthought. Sure they all had IT managers, but unless the company was part of the IT sector then the IT manager was mostly relegated to making sure that the corporate email system was working, he or she was not … Read more
Can’t an IT manager just rise above all of the politics? I mean really, with all of the technology leadership decisions that need to be made along with the business processes that need to be streamlined, can’t we all just skip the politics and get down to business? It turns out that we can’t and … Read more
How’s that job going IT manager? Do you find yourself and your IT team more and more often with too much to do and too few hands with which to do it? If so then maybe both of you are suffering from “IT Manager Attention Deficit Syndrome”. What can you do about it? The Madness … Read more
The one thing that everyone in IT has learned is to stay away from projects that we just know are going to fail, right? It turns out that over in England, they seem to have forgotten this rule. They decided to do a huge IT project to modernize their health care system and guess what, … Read more