Entries Categorized as 'Signs of weak management'
by Mark P. McDonald | February 6, 2012 | Submit a Comment
Every business book you read says that you need to have ‘executive sponsorship’ for any major initiative. Fail to involve the executives and you are likely to fail. That advice has become so prevalent that it is almost worthless. Getting executive sponsorship is not what matters; it’s the quality of the sponsorship that makes all [...]
Category: 2012 Change on the cheap IT Governance Leadership Management Personal Observation Signs of weak management Strategy Tags: 2012 planning, amplify, Leadership, Management, Personal Observation, Signs of weak management
by Mark P. McDonald | December 5, 2011 | Submit a Comment
I was at a large conference recently and I noticed a very helpful ad hoc tool a team had developed. The tool was a list of people and rooms taped to a wall so people could see where their peers were without having to stand in line and ask a coordinator to direct them. Now [...]
Category: CFO CIO Leadership Signs of weak management Tags: Business Leadership, Business Management, CEO, Signs of weak management
by Mark P. McDonald | November 16, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Project management performance and capability is a perennial issue among IT leaders. Project management is critical to the success of IT and the organization. Given the dismal rate of project success, one can call the competence of project managers into question. Just about every, conversation I have about project management centers on what is wrong [...]
Category: Management Personal Observation Signs of weak management Tags: IT Leadership, IT Project, personal musing, Signs of weak management
by Mark P. McDonald | September 28, 2011 | 2 Comments
Technology Attention Deficit (TAD) refers to the degree to which your company chases new technologies and solutions only to move onto the next big thing. Using the description of an organization having an ‘attention deficit disorder’ means no offense to people who have ADD or ADHD which are serious a biological disorders that can significantly [...]
Category: IT Governance Leadership Management Signs of weak management Technology Tags: Business Leadership, Business Management, Signs of weak management
by Mark P. McDonald | August 29, 2011 | 4 Comments
We are all sometimes loose with terminology. Just consider terms like architecture, value, strategy and the like and its easy to see how the same words can have slightly different meanings. However beneath every word there is a meaning, a sense, an idea and its helpful to go back to the root of the word [...]
Category: IT Governance Leadership Management Signs of weak management Tags: Change leadership, Change Management, IT Leadership, IT management, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | July 22, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Technology is a complex and confusing industry and therefore subject to miss-information either by accident or by plan. This post deals with the impact of that complexity and how it has led IT to be influenced by tactics based on creating fear, raising uncertainty and creating doubt in IT capabilities and capacities. A surprising amount [...]
Category: CIO Leadership Management Personal Observation Signs of weak management marketing Tags: CIO Leadership, personal musing, Signs of weak management, Technology, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | May 9, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Last week’s events and the general reaction to them reminded me that for every achievement there is a criticism of that achievement. Reach a goal and rather than celebration or satisfaction there is criticism and analysis from just about everyone, even your friends. You should have done it sooner, you should have done it this [...]
Category: Leadership Management Personal Observation Signs of weak management Tags: Business Management, Leadership, Management, personal musing, Signs of weak management
by Mark P. McDonald | January 18, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Strategic inflammation is the degree of operational disruption that comes from per suing new strategies that are largely the same as the old strategy. Inflammation is an appropriate term here as a source of inflammation comes from repeatedly doing the same thing in the same place. Strategic inflammation is one of the signs of weak [...]
Category: 2011 Signs of weak management Strategy Tags: 2011 Planning, Business Strategy, Strategy, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | December 6, 2010 | 6 Comments
You have heard these words sitting in the audience or perhaps you have spoken them when you have the floor. Either way the message behind these six words is clear. I am here. This is what I want to say. I do not really care about what you hear. Sure, I might have been interested [...]
Category: Personal Observation Signs of weak management Tags: personal musing, Signs of weak management
by Mark P. McDonald | November 22, 2010 | 2 Comments
That sounds like a personal question. It is not. Just an observation that size of your presentation deck tells more about you than you might imagine. This is particularly important as we enter a period of intense communications as we consolidate 2010 achievements and finalize 2011 plans. This observation came up when we were discussing [...]
Category: CIO Signs of weak management Tools Tags: Business, CIO Tools, IT and Business, Leadership, Management, Signs of weak management, Tools
