Fearless Executive: Finding the Courage to Trust Your Talents and Be the Leader You Are Meant to Be by Alan Downs
Downs is a very successful executive coach who has worked the inside of a large corporation himself. He is even the author of an intriguing memoir of sorts about axing huge numbers of the employees [...]

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Even though they are continuing to spend millions every year, the project has almost no chance of success for entirely organizational reasons.

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ACM’s Eighth Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies was held in Como, Italy this year. Regretfully, I didn’t attend but I have been pouring through the proceedings. As I promised months ago, this post highlights some of the more interesting points for those of us doing access control technologies for software systems.

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Wouldn’t you know it? The last issue that I have coming to me before I was going to end my IEEE Computer Society membership and it had to be interesting. I’ve been reading Computer for several years now and I’ve gotten to the point where I just pass it on to some other IT schmuck [...]

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We’re not happy in positions that we don’t have the ability to do nor are we successful.

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What have we lost in our rejection of hierarchy?

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Jaques and Clement make the point that almost any personality type can be an effective manager (a role that contains leadership; they go to lengths to make it clear that leadership does not exist outside of a particuar role performance). These personality quirks are irrelevant until they become disruptive to the organization or the person’s [...]

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Most executives that implement a PeopleSoft or SAP are surprised that productivity takes such a dive in the departments that these systems were supposed to automate. Departments that are dependent on the data see some productivity increase as information becomes more available, but many tasks that used to take a moment (or could, if you [...]

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