IT Management Issues soft skills

IT Management Issues
IT managers are responsible for making sure that technology is deployed and utilized in the most effective manner, this means that besides good people skills, they need a slightly deeper than normal understanding of how technology 'should be' used. Here are a variety of suggestions. Who's Frustrating Whom? What's the source of the Expert's Frustration? The Technical Expert's Handicap There's something missing in how Experts offer solutions Jeering at Jargon Some fun at the expense of your favorite IT person Professionals by Definition What does it mean to be part of a 'profession'? The Seven Deadly Sins of Project Management Here's what Pope Gregory the Great had to say about PM <grin> Common Sense isn't Overhead Budgeting the tracking of Progress to Plan Backing up your Career Why Certification is now a must. Lawyers, Clients & Data The hard reality of Security From Earthquakes to E-mail Use Base Isolation to protect against ISP Failures The Roots of Privacy Is legislation the only answer to privacy issues? Playing with IT Why playing with a PC is a good thing The Perils of E-mail Why writing fast is usually writing bad Backing up your Career The rise and importance of Certification The Magpies of Progress Why playing with technology is a must Plan to Fail today Unless you seek out failure, you cannot find success Geographical Ambivalence Why work will go where it wants to Handcuffed by Standards The trials and tribulations of standardizing on a technology Return to Publications Directory				Truth Pick #137 My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. Peter Drucker If there's one thing there's no shortage of, it's ignorance. We're surrounded by it. Saturated with it. Ignorance by its nature crowds out reason, commonsense and understanding. Yet we seem to accept it as normal. We're apparently willing to live with it. We fail to seize the opportunity to ask these questions which could dispel it: Why do we do it this way? Why do we believe this to be true? Why can't we change the rules? Why must we do this at all? These are the world wrecking questions. These are the queries that challenge, and can shatter, the Status Quo. They're also the simple questions available to anyone (with enough courage) in every situation. They raise the specter that things need not be as we've accepted them. Nor is the question 'Why?' beyond our scope. It's perhaps the only strength we share regardless of upbringing or social standing. From our first days of speech we ask 'Why?' … and at some point we stop. Why? We're born with the urge to ask 'Why?', when we lose it, we begin to die. (c) 2004 Peter de Jager Pdejager@technobility.com For more Truth Picks visit:- www.truthpicks.com