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5 Ways to Fix Your High Value Jerks
8:01 AM Tuesday April 10, 2012
Talented jerks. Every organization has them. They’re knowledgeable and relentless. They’re the “go-to” resource whenever there’s a crisis or an important project. They get things done but they leave bruises by micromanaging and intimidating their colleagues and reports.
You hate their behavior, but love their results. You don’t want to fire them; you want to fix them.
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Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Steve Jobs
9:19 AM Thursday March 01, 2012
I finished reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs over Christmas break and I can’t stop thinking about it.
The book disturbed me. I love Apple products; I wanted to admire Steve Jobs. But I don’t.
Great leaders don’t call people names. They don’t treat a person like a prince one day and a serf the next. They don’t practice intimidating stares in the mirror. They don’t treat relationships as if they were commodities to be traded. -
Another Folly With Technology: What You Should Do
7:15 AM Tuesday January 10, 2012
Smart people can make stupid decisions. Case in point: business executives who decide they can address their technology needs without involving IT, responding to the IT supply-and-demand crunch that afflicts so many enterprises today. In my experience, nobody wins in these do-it-yourself projects.
8 Things We Hate About IT

