Management

IT Managers Overestimate How Good Of A Manager They Are

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With a little luck, every IT manager realizes that they are only as good as the people that they have working for them. What this means is that they need to be a good boss if they want to be successful. This leads to a critical question: how good of a boss are you? It … Read more

IT Managers Need To Spot The Warning Signs Of Poor Delegation

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You can do it (all)! Well, not really. In fact the really good IT managers realize that they can’t do it all. However, most of us seem to forget this and find ourselves in an overload situation where we’ve got too much to do and just not enough time to do it. How can we … Read more

Why Delegation Is So Hard For IT Managers To Do

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Congratulations on becoming an IT manager. If you thought that you didn’t have enough time to get all of your work done before you became a manager, it’s not going to become any easier now. If you try to do it all yourself, you are going to fail. It’s time to try a different way … Read more

Top-Down Or Bottom-Up: What’s The Best Way To Set Goals?

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Everyone needs goals. As an IT Leader, it’s going to be your responsibility to help your team set both team and individual goals. Although at first this sounds pretty straightforward, in practice it often turns out to be a bit tricky. The most important question that you’re going to have to answer is which way … Read more

He Shoots! He Scores! Why Goals Are Important To IT Leaders

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Being an IT Leader is a hard job. On any given day, you’ll have multiple people pulling on you trying to get you to do 100 different things. The question that you have to keep asking yourself is “what should my team be working on right now?” This is exactly where new IT managers can … Read more

How IT Leaders Can Get Their Team To Change When They Don’t Want To

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As an IT Leader, one of your main jobs is to lead your team though changes. However, here is where you may run into a problem. Considering how many layoffs, cut backs, and canceled projects most IT teams have had to work though, the last thing that your team really wants is more change. What’s … Read more

Why A Quiet IT Team Should Make An IT Leader Nervous

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It turns out that an IT Leader really doesn’t do all that much. I mean, they probably don’t do any coding, they don’t debug network problems, and they don’t design next-generation storage solutions. Sorta makes you wonder just exactly they do do? It turns out that most of an IT Leader’s time is spent doing … Read more

Why Performance Reviews Don’t Work In IT

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For just one article, let’s be brutally honest here. Let’s spend just a moment talking about that annual rite of passage that all IT Leaders and workers go through: the annual performance review. These conversations are lies and falsehoods build on conflicting goals that serve nobody’s best interest. Do I have your attention now? Performance … Read more

Turns Out There Is Business Value In IT, You Just Have To Unlock It

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As though managing a team of IT professionals wasn’t enough, now we’re all being asked to become more valuable to the business – to start thinking about the company’s bottom line. What part of working in a company’s cost center are they missing? It sure seems as though the pressure on IT managers to deliver … Read more

Say Hello To Your Next Monster IT Project: GRC

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As IT Leaders we are always looking forward to our next challenge, the big project that looks impossible at the beginning, but which through our superhuman efforts turns into a technical and business success story. This is all great, but we do need to be careful because there’s one big project out there that could … Read more