by Mark P. McDonald | June 12, 2009 | Submit a Comment
A short post As I attend conferences a few patterns emerge. One is that on the last day of a multi-day event the conference planners inevitably serve Fajitas to the attendees, particularly in the U.S. Its quick, its easy, and it gives you something to do with the roast and chicken served at the inevitable [...]
Category: Fun Personal Observation Tags: Conferences, Management, Personal Observation
by Mark P. McDonald | April 15, 2009 | 6 Comments
This entry is a personal observation and pet peeve. Why are hotel rooms at business hotels so dark and poorly lit? I would think that hotel managers would look to make their rooms more attractive to business travelers who need to be more productive on the road. However lately this does not seem to be [...]
Category: Fun Personal Observation Tags: Personal Observation, Working on the road
by Mark P. McDonald | March 10, 2009 | Submit a Comment
This is the last of three blog entries regarding the future of the CIO. These are based on a discussion with a dozen CIOs at the recent Gartner CIO Leadership Forum. Those discussions recognized that much has changed for CIOs and IT in the past 10 years. That is good news, as change requires adjustment [...]
Category: CIO Fun Leadership Tags: CIO, CIO Tools, Future role
by Mark P. McDonald | February 25, 2009 | Submit a Comment
“How did he die?” the audience is huddled over an executive wearing a business suit and clutching a wireless mouse. ”His brain exploded, at first we thought it was as stroke, but know we know better.” “It was death by powerpoint.” You hear the term a lot; you have probably had your life shortened by [...]
Category: CIO Fun Personal Observation Tags: Leadership, Powerpoint, presentations
by Mark P. McDonald | February 16, 2009 | 1 Comment
A little holiday hypothesis given that today is President’s Day in the U.S. also known as a bank holiday outside the U.S. Now to the question. The President is a leader of the country (Head of State) of their political party, and more often than not of the people. CIOs are also leaders in their [...]
Category: CIO Fun Tags: CIO, Presidents
by Mark P. McDonald | February 13, 2009 | 1 Comment
Twitter, Facebook and other social computing platforms are filled with people’s activities, what is going on with their lives. Most of it is interesting and often you get to see the routine pace of others. Yesterday the routine became the extraordinary in a simple way. A friend of mine from College and I had just [...]
Category: Fun Personal Observation Uncategorized web 2.0 Tags: Add new tag, home life, personal, Social Computing, web 2.0
