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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.
  • 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@...

  • 48

    The perfect work space

    As I write this blog, I am doing so from the comfort of my home office. Comfy chair, nice furniture, the appropriate lighting, and an ergonomic setup make it an ideal place for me to work. It's...

    Posted by Ramon Padilla | July 29, 2007, 4:52 PM PDT | Latest comment by johncarr@...

  • 4

    Yelping yet?

    Have you started Yelping yet? It's clearly the way of the future. But most companies' haven't yet figured out that it's coming at them - for good or bad. Yelping is all about the...

    Posted by John McKee | July 26, 2007, 2:05 PM PDT | Latest comment by jwoo@...

  • 24

    People performance: Can you believe what you see?

    When we are observing the behavior and performance of our people can we really believe what we see? In 1927, the theoretical physicist Werner Karl Heisenberg developed the uncertainty principle....

    Posted by Wayne Anderson | July 24, 2007, 10:45 PM PDT | Latest comment by Freebird54

  • 6

    Do you still have a "twinkle" in your eye for cool technology?

    A colleague of mine made a comment yesterday that I have heard a number of times from long-time IT veterans who have become CIOs. The comment was, "I've been in this business too long to be...

    Posted by Ramon Padilla | July 22, 2007, 2:57 PM PDT | Latest comment by TheGooch1

  • 29

    3 tips to improve your executive presence

    One of the most frequent issues clients ask me for help with is "executive presence". It's one of those beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder issues to some extent. What works for some people is...

    Posted by John McKee | July 20, 2007, 9:42 AM PDT | Latest comment by saulo.murguia@...

  • 0

    Was Terry Semel the wrong guy for Yahoo?

    On paper it looked pretty good. When Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang brought Terry Semel aboard as that company's ceo in 2001, most of the pundits hailed it as a decision to use the right guy and the...

    Posted by John McKee | July 16, 2007, 1:47 PM PDT

  • 7

    How to get the least from a team interview

    Recently I was teaching a class regarding the fundamental management skills and I was asked by one of the participants about the pros and cons of having different people around the organization...

    Posted by John McKee | July 16, 2007, 5:05 AM PDT | Latest comment by w2ktechman

  • 18

    How to issue the "hard no"

    If you polled managers and asked them to list the things they have the most difficulty doing, somewhere near the top of the list would be "saying no." I can already hear many of you saying, "Well,...

    Posted by Ramon Padilla | July 15, 2007, 5:50 AM PDT | Latest comment by abey.abraham@...

  • 1

    Catching my eye

    I did a quick scan of news headlines this week and I found these to be eye-catching: "Hackers Claimed to Unlock iPhone" "Microsoft Readies Six Security Updates" "Libby commutation spurs heated...

    Posted by Ramon Padilla | July 8, 2007, 8:16 AM PDT

  • 12

    Leave the drama to actors

    I have a relative (looks over shoulder) whose everyday life experience is a drama. Nothing is just ordinary or boring -- EVERYTHING is a production, every problem a crisis. I bet you know someone...

    Posted by Ramon Padilla | July 1, 2007, 6:15 PM PDT | Latest comment by MakingITclear