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That's it for me. For now.
Motivators: taking care of your team
Being late says a lot about you, and none of it's good
A blog and a newsletter
You want to be in charge? Then you aren't qualified.
Bosses from hell? No thanks!
Management and parenting
Leave it at the office
Carnival of Leadership
Be a mentor, starting now
Meetings that don't suck
A great video resource for developing speaking skills
Don't do everything on your list
Scientific evidence on balance
An experiment with the “Lessig Style”
5 ways to kill your career
There aren't many things you have to do
Spreading leadership traits in your organization
The Only Trait of a Leader moves in at InfoWorld
The Only Trait of a Leader, the book
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ORIGINAL The Only Trait of a Leader, the book
Answer this question: What do you do for a living?
Manage your difficult conversation by bringing in a solution
Practice before a one on one conversation
What to do: preparing before personal interactions
Difficult Conversations
A new year is as good a time as any to step back
Upcoming IT Exec-Connect chat
Private speaking: interacting on purpose
What to do: don't be shy about blowing your own horn
An underdeveloped leadership skill: the particulars of private speaking
The last of the public speaking series: easy tips
Killing the 7 deadly habits of public speaking
Tips for becoming a better speaker: feedback
Tips for becoming a better public speaker: practice
Leaders are made, not born
Archives
An interested audience is an amazing thing
What to do: tour your way to public speaking success
Take the time to prepare, even for one-on-one conversations
Becoming an outstanding speaker: get feedback
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Becoming an outstanding speaker: keep it simple
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Maintenance complete
Getting technology done: managing contractors and outside support
Don't create a vision by committee
The Only Wallpaper of a Leader
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Becoming an outstanding speaker: to speak well, listen
Becoming an outstanding speaker: rules are meant to be broken
What to do, public speaking: make sure your audience hears what you say
Leadership isn't a game
Anybody interested in an audible version of the book?
Keeping to a schedule during public speaking gigs
A few tips for keeping your audience engaged
Public speaking: the magic is in the middle
6.5 Career decisions you should make on purpose
Getting through the noise: speaking for attention and understanding
Why effective speaking skills are critical to technology careers
What to do with brats
When not doing your job is the best thing you can do
No principle at all
Computerworld feature article
Don't do everything on your list
How you can build your brand
Notes from the field: e-mail
The key to actively managing your career
Rules are meant to be broken
How to improve your technical writing? Get feedback.
Neatness counts
Eschew obfuscation
To write well, read
What is the audience going to do?
Know what your audience already knows
Research your audience, too
Writing to disseminate
Writing to inform
Writing to persuade
Matching your technical writing to the goal you want to accomplish
Effective technical communication tells a story
No matter what you write, be accurate and be sensible
Write well, even in email
Written technical communication is forever
The platinum rule of technical writing
Quick Study: The Only Trait of a Leader
Quick Study: Management and leading people
Dealing with problems as a manager
The importance of effective technical writing
From leadership philosophy to career skills
Recognize and reward success
What gets checked gets done
Zak Kozak on Leadership
Getting buy-in for your vision without writing by committee
Articulating your vision exposes you to failure: do it anyway
Taking your time and managing change with a new vision
New managers: take your time finding a vision
As a new leader, how do I create a good vision?
Leading people: your plan of action
Empowerment: how will you know when you're doing it right?
Practical steps for empowering your technical team
Hmmm. Empowerment sounds hard: why bother?
The two steps for empowering teams to get stuff done
Everyone’s gotta row
Everyone has a starring role
The structure of teams
The only trait of a team
David Sobotta on Leadership
A second view
Professor Joe F. Thompson on Leadership
Introducing the View from the Top
Advice for new managers: Corrections done correctly
Advice for new managers: correctly defending your core values
The hard way: sharing your values and expectations in a formal presentation
As a new leader of people, you must set the tone
Leadership and leading people
Technology is for creative types
Leadership, management, and margin people
Leading people is hard: fight your inner manager
Success and your new management job
Why does it matter? Part 2: All leadership is local.
How are things going to work?
Management and leadership are not the same thing
About
Quick Study: The principles of technology leadership
Ok, a progress break
Make teaching part of your leadership development
Make it your leadership goal to minimize the losers
Leadership and the rest of the balanced life story
Honesty
An example of honesty in action
Leadership success comes from failure
Don't settle for good
No one dies wishing they had gone to more meetings
Printed version of the book available now
The big idea
What's all this then?
The permanence of the written word
Leaders at all levels
Listen and learn
Leadership notes from the field
Speaking of writing, what about e-mail?
Seek, and you will find: mentorship
The principal principle
The platinum rule of writing
If you can't write well, you might as well stay home.
Lights on
Why does it matter? Part 1: Big Picture
Management is not leadership
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