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Professional Identity Online – Are You a Dog?

August 12, 2009

Peter Steiner published his infamous “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” cartoon in 1993.  This mental image for me was just a joke – until recently.  For the most part, you know the people who email you, link up with on Facebook or LinkedIn.  Those you don’t recognize, you just write off as spam or a mistake. Today, Twitter is buzzing with an expose penned by John C. Dvorak, of PC Mag editorial ...

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3 CIO Lessons from Obama’s First 100 Days

April 29, 2009

Today marks President Obama’s 100th day in office.  Gallup reports that Obama’s 63% approval rating is the best since Carter’s early approval rating in 1977 (the highest was JFK’s 74% in 1961; CNN’s take).   Americans have used the first 100 days as a predictor of Presidential success ever since FDR’s barrage of New Deal programs.  NPR even has an Obama Tracker that has been documenting domestic, economic and foreign policy milestones since the President ...

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CIO Leadership: Listen to the Guy on the Ground

April 3, 2009

I’ve been enjoying The Mission, The Men, and Me, an Army Special Forces commander’s account of his missions and the fundamental lessons that he took away from them.  The author, Pete Blaber, is now an executive at Amgen, which both lends credibility to the application of his ideas in a business context and provides a glimpse into the kind of leader he is. Among the lessons he distills from his experiences is that a leader ...

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