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Tough questions to ask about your performance as a leader

October 27, 2009, 7:31am PDT

Here are some of the tough questions you should be asking yourself if you're serious about becoming a top-notch IT leader.
Five qualities to seek in hiring great employees

October 6, 2009, 11:24am PDT

Great leaders are absolutely diligent about hiring only the right people. Here are five innate qualities you should look for when hiring.
Five tips to help you become a great leader

October 6, 2009, 11:04am PDT | 1

This episode of CIO Sanity Savers discusses five powerful tactics that can help boost your chances for success as an IT leader.
How CIOs can instigate change

October 6, 2009, 10:13am PDT

IT leaders must know how to instigate change. This episode of CIO Sanity Savers discusses five key factors to help your change initiatives succeed.
Five classic mistakes in a boardroom pitch

September 17, 2009, 8:08am PDT

There are a number of ways you can shoot yourself in the foot during a presentation to the board. This episode of CIO Sanity Savers helps sidestep some of the obvious landmines.

Deploy metrics to revolutionize business processes

August 31, 2009, 7:09am PDT

This episode of CIO Sanity Savers shares some valuable pointers to help you build a successful business metrics program.
Three steps for driving consensus in decision-making

August 31, 2009, 6:08am PDT

Today's episode of CIO Sanity Savers passes along a few tricks that can help you bring diverse groups together and enable effective decision-making.
Five ways for a CIO to become invaluable to the CEO

August 31, 2009, 5:53am PDT

This episode of CIO Sanity Savers share a few ideas about how CIOs can best provide their CEOs with critical value and support.
Look beyond the dollar signs to validate your projects

August 31, 2009, 5:16am PDT

This episode of CIO Sanity Savers explains how to identify and demonstrate the value of a proposed project by looking beyond just dollars and cents.
How CIOs can foster feedback from their staff

August 25, 2009, 11:36am PDT

This episode of CIO Sanity Savers shares several strategies that will help you keep your finger on the pulse of your IT group.
Five reasons to kill IT projects

August 12, 2009, 11:31am PDT

According to IS Audit and Control Association, 43 percent of organizations recently killed an IT project. This episode of CIO Sanity Savers discusses the top five reasons projects were killed and the implications of each one.
Five networking tips to advance your career

August 12, 2009, 9:11am PDT

Once you get to a certain level in your career, most of your new job opportunities come from your personal network of contacts and not your resume. This episode of CIO Sanity Savers shares five networking tips that have worked for many IT and business professionals.
Does IT need more social scientists and fewer technologists?

August 3, 2009, 8:44am PDT

Gartner researcher Tom Austin believes that IT has too many engineers and not enough social scientists. This episode of CIO Sanity Savers evaluates Austin's perspective.
Five smart ways to handle workforce reductions

July 24, 2009, 11:04am PDT

If workforce reductions are not handled right, they can make an already difficult situation even worse. Here are tips to minimize the impact of layoffs on IT operations.
Four ways to recession-proof your IT group

July 22, 2009, 8:05am PDT

In a difficult economy, IT becomes invaluable for driving efficiency and cost savings. However, to become perpetually relevant, IT needs to be perceived as a value-generating, strategically active department. Here are four ways that IT can prove its worth and generate tangible business value.