The 11th edition of Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines transition as: a: passage from one state, stage, subject, or place to another : CHANGE b: a movement, development, or evolution from one form, stage, or style to another I suppose that at any time, most of us are in a state of some sort of transition,
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Colonial JobSeekers: Support Group with a Purpose
Since first entering the job market, I’ve had many opportunities to seek employment. My first job out of school was working as a deck hand on a deep sea diver’s tender. You know what I’m talking about, the guys with the big metal helmets and weighted boots. No, we weren’t in the deep sea. We were
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Feedback, the Mightiest Gift of All
Okay, so now I know what a peer review is. It is feedback to the book proposal from a fellow author. Back in the day when I worked for Warner-Lambert, I learned what a mighty gift feedback can be. I consulted with them for almost two years, working in the HRIT department. For each of those
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The Book Proposal
For the bulk of 2009, I researched IT industry best practices to write a former company’s System Development Life Cycle (SDLC). As a fairly young IT organization, the company does not have many documented standard procedures. I only know of two, their computer use policy and the change control procedures. There were no standards for system development.
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What is Your Leadership Framework?
One of the greatest opportunities I had when working for Pfizer was to be included in an executive leadership development program conducted in Sandwich, U.K. All IT executives, Director level and higher, attended a multi-week program taught by Steve Buchholtz, author of “Creating the High Performance Team” published by Wiley in 1987. That’s where I developed my
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