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A Note From the Editor

Welcome to the GeekLeaders.com Community

I hope that you find here the beginnings of a community from which you can learn a great deal about technical leadership and to which you can contribute in equal measure. 

As you can see in the banner, our goal is to advance the understanding and practice of technical leadership.  This is not a topic that lends itself to provable singular solutions.  It is complex and multi-faceted.  We will learn best by reflecting on and sharing our experiences.

Once you complete the free registration and login, your menu bar will include links for contributing blogs, articles, weblinks and forum commentary.  I hope that after you spend some time reading, you will want to participate in the ongoing conversations and to start a few of your own.

Please review this first implementation of the site, imagine how it might best become both a resource and community for you ... and then help us make it so.  Please feel free to leave candid, constructive feedback in the Shoutback section or contact me directly.

Best,

Paul Glen, Founder and Editor 


"A" is for Authority
Blogs - Blogs
Written by Paul Williams   

When I got my first management promotion years ago I was pretty naïve and unskilled in the "how-to's" of management.  There are stories I could tell you about that you'd probably find either funny or cringe-worthy (at least I do).  Let me tell you just one, though, that happened to me a few years later when I was a new vice-president and should have known better - but hey, those were they days before there was much in terms of leadership or management training available outside of business schools.

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You Can't Outsource Retention
Competencies - Interpersonal Competencies
Written by Paul Glen   

Excuse me?" I said to my new boss with barely concealed incredulity.

"You shouldn't thank your people for just doing their jobs. That's what the paycheck is for."

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The Delegation Boomerang
Competencies - Interpersonal Competencies
Written by Paul Glen   
Have you ever noticed that delegation doesn't always work? Have you ever given one of your subordinates a task and a few days later found it back on your to-do list? I call this the delegation boomerang effect.
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10 No Cost Ways to Move Your IT Shop from Mediocrity to Greatness
Competencies - Interpersonal Competencies
Written by Robby Bryant   

Have you ever taken a look at those "Top 100 IT Shops to Work For" and asked yourself why your shop can't be more like these.  For those CIO's, Director's and Manager's who are struggling with ways to keep talented IT employees while making their IT shop a better place to work, here are a few tips to consider that will not cost you a dime:

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Dangers of Taking Legal Action Against A$$holes
Blogs - Blogs
Written by Bob Sutton   

Fight back carefully.

 

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Sometimes It Takes a Tyrant
Competencies - Interpersonal Competencies
Written by Paul Glen   
Sometimes a manager needs to be a tyrant.  On rare occasions, anything less is a disservice to one’s organization and an abdication of responsibility. Even the most open, consensus-oriented manager needs to be prepared to use dictatorial powers now and then.
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Paul Glen at the Hollywood Improv
Humor - Humor
Written by Paul Glen   

IT is easy.  Comedy is hard.

Watch the video of GeekLeaders.com editor, Paul Glen, performing standup comedy at the Hollywood Improv.  (He's keeping his day job..whatever that is.) 


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