When you transition into a leadership role
These 5 steps will help you with a planful transition.
These 5 steps will help you with a planful transition.
Open organizations depend on trust. These factors can influence it.
Local services are fine when there’s a unique need, but consider these markers to know when to transition to enterprise offerings.
Open your decision-making process and give decision making power and trust to your teams.
How organizational leaders can foster new startup projects in developing countries.
With the advances in information technology, startups are becoming more viable in local and worldwide markets.
Use an Open Decision Framework to help your organization make collaborative decisions.
Effective leaders continue to learn and practice the art of leadership.
Factors that contribute to someone's attitude toward either cooperation or competition.
Enabling collaboration and cooperation requires effort and hard work.
Saying Yes to too many projects can drain your energy. It's okay to say No.
Colleagues have asked me how local government differed from education. Here are a few notes from when I moved from higher ed to government.
Your network can be your greatest source of information and guidance.
We must continually reassess our aspirations, tap into resources within our networks, and creatively generate novel new opportunities.
We are thankful to have an engaged community of leaders, sharing their leadership experience.
The "Above/Below The Line" model helps both sides understand the roles involved after IT consolidation.
A closer look at how open organizations can engage team members in making decisions.
How leaders can lead through change despite team members who'd rather stall it.
These 5 steps will help you with a planful transition.
As an industry, we are finding where expectation meets reality with generative AI.
Learn your personality type to make peer-to-peer discussions and decision-making more productive.
Open organizations depend on trust. These factors can influence it.
Consider these technologies and how they have changed IT organizations. What will the next innovation bring?
Local services are fine when there’s a unique need, but consider these markers to know when to transition to enterprise offerings.
Open your decision-making process and give decision making power and trust to your teams.
With little money, how can leaders introduce a startup?
Consider what your IT landscape will look like in five or ten years from now.
IT leaders need to develop their own strategic plans to support the organization’s strategic plan.
Organizations that don't improve their communication environment may lose their competitive advantage.
How can an organizational leader develop, promote, establish, and build a team for community startups?
Thanks to Simón for sharing this excellent perspective on leadership within and across organizations.
Organizations can deploy open source in a variety of ways.
Open leaders should stay involved in decision-making, not avoid it.
How local leaders can build a support network and accelerate any startup project.
We welcome anyone to share their story about how they lead.
Bring in engaged experts to help you get something going while looking for your forever person.
Startups will increase in the future and leaders should see these as great opportunities.
With compatible values, all partners can better help each other.
Lessons learned in moving to a virtual organization structure in the face of the pandemic.
Good interviewers look for a “story” behind your answer. Use this method to tell your story.
Why IT leaders should not encourage using AI to replace decision-makers in meetings.
Part of giving thanks to the people who supported you in your technology career is giving back to those who are just starting theirs.
Your cover letter gets their attention. Hook their interest so they notice you.
There’s more to a resume than a list of jobs. Let your achievements stand out.
Sometimes, you need to stop the distractions and schedule time for yourself.
A simple “Thank you” can be a powerful way to show your appreciation.
Leverage the principles of open organizations to get buy-in from your teams, and drive digital transformations more effectively.
Work together with established managers and emerging leaders to build open organizations. That requires respect, curiosity, and trust from all sides.
To foster engaged and innovative organizations, you need to set the right conditions for open leaders to thrive.
Purely rational decisions and snap judgements won't cultivate trust or empower others. Look to create open environments instead.
Your open organization leaders know the most effective path forward, but are you giving them the space to get there?
Companies with stakeholder boards maximize positive society impact over maximum company profits.
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If you can envision it, you can make it happen. This "movie concept" shows how organizations can be socially responsible.
How employees in multinational corporations can develop a sense of purpose and mission while leading their organization toward greater global social responsibility.
How corporations can adjust their mindset toward attacking poverty, pollution, cybercrime and other worldwide issues and do it profitably.
As chief information officer, I leveraged many of the lessons I learned from my experience in open source software.
Resource planning helps everyone stay on target. You can build a resource plan for your team using a spreadsheet.
Sharing my experience in successfully launching a small business.
IT manages disaster recovery, but business owners own the business continuity.
Using an Open Organization process, companies can become more responsible and adapt to change more quickly.
A brief history of globalization and how multinational corporations have to play a more sustainable, ecological and humanitarian role in the future.
Gantt charts help project managers to plan projects and coordinate team member activities.
Hallmentum was honored to work with our peers and colleagues at the Government IT Symposium.
Use this process to reduce the noise that creates radically different judgments in group collaboration.
In today's noisy environment, a leader has to at least reduce counterproductive "noise" and biases to achieve the desired goals.
If you forged a path and led the way, you are a leader. And we want to share your story.
What does your disaster recovery plan look like? Take this opportunity to review processes and procedures in your own organization.
Use this method to get some distance from the day-to-day issues and improve your work/life balance.
Leverage SWOT in a new way to identify present and future needs.
Sometimes you need a process to break out of the everyday and find solutions. Use this approach to identify new ideas and expand on them.
Today's leaders need an international lens, and an ability to communicate effectively across cultures and languages.
Technology isn't just for digital transformation. We often see technology leveraged in entertainment.
Today’s IT leader plays a much different role than the IT leader of several years ago.
Instead of trying to anticipate the future, IT leaders should instead build a flexible framework to prepare for it.
Strengthen your teams, learn from and be inspired by others, and explore new opportunities to collaborate with your peers.
When bringing people together in a new team, most groups go through these four stages.
Leadership often involves working with large groups. Use these lessons to identify the top priorities from a large gathering.
The sharing economy is here to stay. IT leaders developing the next generation platforms should consider sharing economy ideas as part of their model.
From Airbnb to rideshare companies, the sharing economy model is here to stay.
Open organization principles such as collaboration and community also support an emerging business model based on connections.
Leaders bring innovation and strategic thinking to an organization. Explore how one CEO approaches leadership.
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When legacy systems are stable and keep running, is legacy really a bad thing?
Try this method to envision the future and fine tune your strategic plan to get there.
Through open data, governments became more transparent to citizens. With open source, you can take government transparency to the next level.
Leadership lessons are all around us, if we can look at things through a new lens. What lessons can you find in Star Wars?
The role of an IT leader often requires leading through change. Use these lessons to navigate change more effectively.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Use these tips to develop a healthier work-life balance.
Everyone in an organization needs to find balance between Technical, Interpersonal, Strategic, Financial. IT leaders need to choose their focus.
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Effective leaders know how to balance their time. Recognize how you divide your week or day so you can focus your leadership energy.
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