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Toni Bowers

Toni Bowers
Toni Bowers is the Head Blogs Editor of TechRepublic and award-winning blogger for the Career Management blog.
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    Do family values = more productivity?

    If a company offers an onsite daycare facility, does it increase expenses or productivity? What if an organization provides paid sick day benefits? Is it just a nice benefit for the employees...

    Posted by John McKee | October 4, 2007, 4:13 PM PDT | Latest comment by pgerdes@...

  • 0

    Who's planning to take your job?

    It is always difficult to think that some else is capable of doing your job. Of course, it is even more challenging to think that someone–anyone–can do it better than you. However, that is...

    Posted by Wayne L. Anderson | October 1, 2007, 5:35 PM PDT

  • 12

    Powerful managers understand these two concepts

    I recently got a call from a man who’d just taken the free mini coaching program we offer on our website. He wanted to know, “Can you give me some advice to help me force my team to work on...

    Posted by John McKee | September 27, 2007, 12:17 PM PDT | Latest comment by gaurav.v.jain@...

  • 0

    Facilitate a meeting to define what success looks like for your project

    Although most projects start enthusiastically, optimism fades quickly unless an analysis and design team gets traction and learns where it is going. Working from a project charter, the team's next...

    Posted by Joe Goss | September 25, 2007, 8:53 AM PDT

  • 5

    Reporting to a board = walking the plank?

    I was watching We Are Marshall last night, the movie about the loss of the Marshall University Football Team in a 1970 plane crash, and the ending left me a little flat. Not because of the...

    Posted by Ramon Padilla | September 21, 2007, 12:23 PM PDT | Latest comment by meryllogue@...

  • 3

    Noodle on this before choosing outsourced “experts�

    I’m in the process of remodeling a home. It was built in 1963 by an architect who my wife and I have always admired and we bought it about 3 months ago. At the time we recognized it was a true...

    Posted by John McKee | September 20, 2007, 8:12 PM PDT | Latest comment by Aspire2Work

  • 55

    Getting to the bottom of a buzzword: What is Web 2.0?

    Are you a Dilbert fan? I find his strips not only hilarious but they often hit close to home. It's as if Scott Adams (the creator of Dilbert) has a cube in every office in America. This explains...

    Posted by Ramon Padilla | September 15, 2007, 9:22 AM PDT | Latest comment by pr.arun@...

  • 4

    How to transform your organization through IT

    I just finished reading an article on the top 100 CIOs deemed "transformers" who changed their organizations through IT. The purpose of the article, besides recognizing these accomplishments, was...

    Posted by Ramon Padilla | September 9, 2007, 2:30 PM PDT | Latest comment by gnr

  • 5

    5 very important questions

    It's easier to be successful if you are doing something which you are passionate about. Most people agree with this statement, more or less. And yet most people are doing things that don't get...

    Posted by John McKee | September 6, 2007, 5:34 PM PDT | Latest comment by JamesRL

  • 11

    Using sex as a career booster

    Ever known anyone who used their body to move up the corporate ranks?  If not, you should be aware that it happens more than you might guess. Both men and women do it.  It's still more...

    Posted by John McKee | August 31, 2007, 7:21 AM PDT | Latest comment by Dr_Zinj

  • 3

    Don’t talk to your people

    I strongly believe that managers should stop talking to their people.  Think about it.  Do you really want to spend all your valuable time talking to your people?  Or would you rather spend...

    Posted by Wayne L. Anderson | August 31, 2007, 5:55 AM PDT | Latest comment by Chuckchuckj@...

  • 4

    Moonlighting: Opportunities and Pitfalls

    Is Moonlighting in your future? Last week I was asked to make a guest appearance on a radio show based out of New York. In addition to me, there was a second guest who had recently started her...

    Posted by John McKee | August 23, 2007, 5:27 PM PDT | Latest comment by mnjenga@...

  • 0

    Seven species of mentors

    When you have a discussion about management, leadership, succession planning, or career planning, someone usually brings up mentoring. Usually at this point people nod their heads and...

    Posted by Ramon Padilla | August 17, 2007, 3:45 PM PDT

  • 0

    Try TA to improve your communications success

    Here’s a 40 year old “secret� for getting ahead. It involves research done back in the 1960's by Dr. Eric Berne. His work back then has become a time-tested and easily implemented...

    Posted by John McKee | August 16, 2007, 8:23 PM PDT

  • 18

    Seven traits of fearful managers

    I recently came across a survey blurb that stated that a certain percentage of management feared being out of the office because they were afraid that a subordinate would outshine them in their...

    Posted by Ramon Padilla | August 11, 2007, 9:11 AM PDT | Latest comment by jim_ilog@...

  • 44

    Pigeonholing can kill your chances for promotion

    Do you feel like you should have been promoted by now?  It hasn't happened, but no one is telling you why?  Perhaps this major promotion killer is holding you back. A while back I was retained...

    Posted by John McKee | August 9, 2007, 8:27 AM PDT | Latest comment by terrybaughman@...

  • 19

    It's 9:00am: Do you know where your people are?

     Today's workforce is located everywhere.  This geographic dispersion of workers presents some interesting management challenges-especially for the IT manager.  You may work in a high rise...

    Posted by Wayne L. Anderson | August 8, 2007, 3:55 AM PDT | Latest comment by larryjoe43@...

  • 10

    iPhone making laptops obsolete in the enterprise?

    Given all the hype regarding the iPhone and the other next-generation handheld mobile devices lately, one would think that the days of the laptop are numbered. However, I tend to disagree and...

    Posted by Ramon Padilla | August 5, 2007, 5:31 PM PDT | Latest comment by dinle

  • 3

    My favorite tool to improve productivity

    I'm not a big believer in time management programs and tools. I find that while most people understand them conceptually, they never get the big improvements expected when they were putting them...

    Posted by John McKee | August 2, 2007, 5:15 PM PDT | Latest comment by DesertPete9

  • 9

    Should the CIO be a technologist or a business person?

    A chief information officer (CIO) must have multiple personalities in order to effectively do their job.  They are required to have a personality that demonstrates that they are the company's...

    Posted by Wayne L. Anderson | August 2, 2007, 4:06 AM PDT | Latest comment by jeff.gillis@...

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