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The Most Important Thing About Your IT Budget

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Here’s something important to me and you. I just got the below reader email. I’ve taken out personally identifying information and changed his name, but here’s what it was: Hey Jonathan, I greatly appreciate your insight from your latest article, “How To Get More Resources For IT.” I work in ***, *** for a multi-billion […]

Filed Under: IT vs Everybody, Teams Tagged With: benchmarking, CIO, cost transparency, IT budget, it budgeting, teams

How To Tell Your Boss, “You’re Wrong!”

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Any smart boss is looking for pushback. Here’s why, and how you can push back in a way that’s good for everyone. When I coach new or emerging leaders, I often offer this protip: if nobody’s speaking up or objecting to your direction, it’s probably not because you’re perfect. It’s because folks feel like they […]

Filed Under: Better Worklife, Self Management, Teams Tagged With: bully boss, getting to yes, negotiation, pushback, Robert Fisher, smart boss, teams, william ury

Team Trust: Leadership Not As Important As You Think?

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I thought I’d share something interesting about trust among teams based on research I recently did.  Team trust level is something that gets pooh-poohed by those who scorn “touchy feely” stuff, but it’s critical to any real success. Just about every two years, I’ve done research about enterprise project management, and I’ve just gotten back […]

Filed Under: Better Worklife, Teams, Uncategorized Tagged With: better worklife, enterprise project management, Jonathan Feldman, project management, team trust, teams

Is Lean Startup The Future of The Workplace?

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It’s kind of like an orange juice commercial from the 70s: “Lean Startup: It’s Not Just For Startups Anymore.” Or that’s how it seemed to me on the first day of the Lean Startup Conference. Though many observers, including myself, have urged the adoption of Lean Startup (and startup principles in general) into the workplaces […]

Filed Under: Better Worklife, New Work Mechanics, Startups, Teams Tagged With: better worklife, collaboration, collaborative economy, leadership, lean startup, macromanagement, open data, startups, teams

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