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17 February 2009
Lost heads?
I'm sure everyone is tired of hearing about the economy, layoffs and the stimulus package especially since we are bombarded by this news almost everyday. However, this is the current reality we are all living in and we must continue to be productive. Read More...
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29 January 2009
Questioning as a way of life
I would like to thank Rajesh who is a Principle Development Manager at Microsoft for providing the content for this entry. He poses a great question and scenario that I'm sure quite a few TechLeaders deal with on a daily basis. There is a soft skills Read More...
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27 January 2009
Managing through layoffs.
It more than obvious that our economy is in trouble and hopefully will we see an upswing in the second half of the year. Unfortunately, many of you have had to be the bearer of bad news and let employees go, or you have been let go yourself. This weakened Read More...
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14 January 2009
Have we learned from classic mistakes, or are we continuing the cycle?
While doing content research for TechLeaders I came across an interesting list that describes some of the people-related classic mistakes in the software industry. The article was broken down into people, process, product and technology. Over the next Read More...
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05 January 2009
Managing Remote Employees - Part 3
Happy New Year and welcome back from the holidays. We are going to pick up from where we left off and discuss tactics and advice for managing remote employees. Communication is extremely important when working on a team and having remotes makes it that Read More...
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18 December 2008
How to Manage Remote Employees - Part 1
Due to the globalization of today's business managers are faced with having to manage remote employees. This can be a daunting task especially if you are new to managing people let alone remote folks as well. Throughout the next couple of weeks TechLeaders Read More...
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10 December 2008
Don't let hard times take toll on staff.
There is an obvious theme of uncertainty and possibly a feeling of self preservation for most during these tough economic times. Building off of yesterday's post one of the TechLeader contributors sent me an article from Seattlepi.com. The article speaks Read More...
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02 December 2008
How do you, as a manager, maintain your organization’s trust, while also being transparent in uncertain times?
I fully believe the best and possibly only way to do this is with transparency, as you say. Individuals know that we are in uncertain times. In the absence of a ‘dialog’ individuals will ‘create their own reality’ or make assumptions/guesses wrt how things Read More...
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