On my morning commute, a commercial from KanDenko appeared across the Yamanote line train car’s video screens (all 28 of them). For the few of us in the train that didn’t have our eyes glued to our phone screens, we appeared to be mesmerized by the ad playing. The name …
A great infographic comparing the more traditional “operational CIO” to what many leading companies need today, the “strategic CIO”. I find that there are far too many operational CIOs, and the 80/20 budget rule (80% maintenance / 20% innovation) is still the status quo for most companies. Whether the CIO …
I came across a fantastic article written by George Spalding, on SearchCIO earlier this year. He paints a very accurate picture of what that first day or first encounter between the new CIO and his internal customers looks like. You would think the CIO’s first meeting would be to highlight …
I came across the article linked below, and just had to share. Emotional intelligence is definitely a must have skill to succeed in business today. Leaders must possess high emotional intelligence (EI) in order to handle the stress and complex situations and challenges in today’s businesses. Unfortunately, EI is not …
Work-life balance is so 19th century. It’s all about the tech-life balance, what I am terming as the healthy balance between all our digital gadgets and the real world around us. I have noticed how much technology, and more specifically, our smart phones, have dramatically changed the way we interact …
After traveling to more than 40 countries, I decided to put together a list of some of my favorite restaurants and bars, from the various cities I have visited. These places range from dive bars to hotel bars, and from your local little ramen shop to Michelin star restaurants. Have …
Yelp and Tripadvisor are probably getting a bit worried with Google pushing their map service more and more (or at least they should be). Google Maps already has pretty much, every known business on the planet listed. Try it out, search the name of an establishment with the name of the city …
I have finally moved away from using shared hosting…and man does it feel good! And if I knew how easy and cheap it was, I would have moved on a long time ago. But then again, DigitalOcean wasn’t really around 5-10 years ago. So what is DigitalOcean? DigitalOcean is a cloud hosting provider built on …
I have recently started to get addicted to this app/online web tool called Evernote. I decided it was finally time to consolidate some of my files stored on Dropbox, Google Drive, my personal file server, and local HD on my laptop. We have so many options these days when it comes to …
One of the books on my recommended reading list is “Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works” by Roger Martin and A.G. Lafley. It’s a very interesting read and I highly recommend it. Roger Martin and A.G. Lafley talk through their experiences at P&G and explain what strategy is for (winning) and what’s it’s about …
