When I think of the word “leadership”, a myriad of words come to mind: strategy, accountability, responsibility, mentoring, teaching, etc. The one word that doesn’t immediately come to my mind, but probably should, is communication. Communication is one of the most important aspects of leadership and oftentimes, is a skill that can get easily overlooked. ...
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How to Lead Clever People
With the growing complexity of our global economy businesses are now doing everything they can to build an organization full of clever people. A recent McKinsey study suggests that 70% of the new jobs created in the United States over the past decade were ‘clever jobs,’ meaning they involved complex tasks, complex interfaces between tasks ...
Being a Good Boss
This was originally going to be a post about the book Enchantment by Guy Kawasaki (which, by the way, is an excellent book). I was going to spend a few paragraphs telling you all about the different ways we can enchant people both in our professional and personal lives. Then, I got to p. 159 ...
The Best Technologist of Our Generation
Upon receiving the news of Steve’s passing, I immediately placed a call to our Senior Software Architect, Michael Olivero, to share the sad news. It was as though we were part of a family whose relative had died – we had to let other family members know. We were both devastated and couldn’t believe Steve ...
Thinking Different
It is with a heavy heart that Inktel extends its thoughts and prayers to the friends and family of Steve Jobs and the Apple organization on the passing of this extraordinary and visionary leader. Simply put, Mr. Jobs had no peer in his era. He is the one who consistently taught us that “the people ...
Fgm1477: One guy it is not a company. Apple goes beyond steve...
Ricky Arriola: Brilliant discussion team! Time will tell!...
Jerry Carducci: Core to the issue of poor customer service is that companies really do...