Craig’s Musings

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange appears to be in good hands under the leadership of CEO Meyer (Sandy) Frucher. I say this because of reading CIO Magazine’s interview with Mr. Frucher.
When asked what his biggest IT-related lessons learned, Mr. Frucher responded:
The biggest lesson is never to underfund it because it’s much harder to catch up. Number [...]

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From “Corporate Culture in Internet Time” (Q1 2000 issue of strategy+business): “Cultures aren’t designed. They simmer; they fester; they brew continually, evolving their particular temperament as people learn what kind of behavior works or doesn’t work in the particular company. The most critical factor in building a culture is the behavior of corporate leaders, who [...]

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As part of my recent content pile herding I was reminded of “The Clear Leader” from the March 2005 issue of Fast Company magazine. Two quotes by Marcus Buckingham (with Bill Breen) come to mind:

“Effective leaders don’t have to be passionate or charming or brilliant. What they must be is clear–clarity is the essence of [...]

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Clearly the following images reveal that I have yet to fundamentally change my behavior when it comes to organizing and retaining content:
 

This begs the question, “Why?” Why take the time to keep columns, paragraphs, articles, magazines, etc. in physical form?
The truth is that I prefer softcopy to hardcopy, if for no other reason than it’s much [...]

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While I’ve never been a prolific blogger, I managed to find time to post at least once every month last year. However, total posts this year (64) were down from 2005 (74). I believe this was due to two primary factors: having a family with two kids now and having a high, sustained workload as a [...]

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