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Mix Cloud Services with ifttt recipes!

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ifttt Mix Cloud Services for automation and Productivity

With the multitude of digital tools we are all using for very specific purposes, we've created a monster of inefficiencies and silos; the very thing cloud services aimed to tackle! To address … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Digitally Confident Tagged With: Champion Innovation, CIO, How To, Technology . Posted on 26/04/2012

My May 2012 Speaking Engagements

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I will be speaking at one event in May: May 1-3 , 2011 – Blackberry World 2012 (Orlando, FL) … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Digitally Confident Tagged With: Champion Innovation, CIO, Technology . Posted on 01/04/2012

Reduce IT Costs: Big Savings in Mobile Telecom

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Reduce IT Costs: Global Mobile Telecom Services Management

Reduce IT costs! That's the permanent quest for IT leaders and one area often overlooked because of its apparent complexity is the Mobile Telecom Services spend. With a bit of attention, you will … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Digitally Confident Tagged With: Case Study, CIO, Lean, Relentless Bottom-line Impact, Technology . Posted on 31/03/2012

How Schools Use IT to Engage Our Children

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How Schools Use IT to Engage Your Children: Interactive Whiteboard

How Schools Use IT to Engage Our Children? Interactive whiteboards (IWBs) are a relatively new tool in modern teaching. One of the keys to effective teaching is engaging students in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Digitally Confident Tagged With: Technology . Posted on 28/03/2012

On Shovels

Think in shovels, not in teaspoons.

On Perfection

All my life as a musician I have striven for perfection. It has always eluded me. I surely had an obligation to make one more try – Verdi

On Pigs

When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy

On People

We do not love people so much for the good they have done for us, as for the good we do to them – Leo Tolstoy

On Reading

The person who doesn’t read is no better off than the person who can’t

On Inspiring

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader – John Quincy Adams

On Experience

wisdom is the result of experience, experience is usually a result of lack of wisdom

On Serving

You will never become a fine leader until you become a fine servant – Ellie Lofaro

On How Things Turn Out

Things turn out best for those who make the most of how things turn out

On Setting the example

Good leaders must become what they want their followers to become – Nido R. Qubein

On Undone

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials – Lin Yutang

On Teaching

To Teach is to learn again

On Customer First

If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours – Ray Kroc

On Integrity

The supreme quality for a leader is unquestionably integrity – Dwight D. Eisenhower

On Touching hearts

A gifted leader is one who is capable of touching your heart – Jacob Samuel Potofsky

On What lies within us

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us

On Purpose

Management is doing things right; Leadership is doing the right things. Peter Drucker

On Closeness

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them – John C. Maxwell

On Synergy

Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously. – Mark Twain

On Scarcity

Those who make the worst use of their times are the first to complain of its shortness – Jean de la Bruysre

On Relationships

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations – Oscar Wilde

On Dreaming

All men dream: but not equally.

On Mediocrity

Perpetuating mediocrity is an inherently depressing process and drains much more energy out of the pool than it puts back in. – Jim Collins

On Target

You cannot lead anyone where you yourself are unwilling to go – Gandhi

On Extraordinary People

There are no extraordinary people, only ordinary people who do extraordinary things

On Dreams

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done – Ralph Nader

On Authority and Responsibility

Authority without responsibility is illegitimate but so is responsibility without authority

On Less is more

The easy way to be a good example is to stop being a bad one – General Omar Bradley

On Meetings

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organisation. We either meet or work, we can’t do both at the same time. – Peter Drucker

On Time Management

Time management is not about doing things faster. Time management is about doing the right things – Peter Drucker

On Spectacular Achievement

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation

On Thinking Big

As long as you’re going to think anyway, think big

On Little Things

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things … I am tempted to think … there are no little things

On Your Entry Point

Wherever you are is the entry point

On Preparation

If I am to speak 10min, I need a week for preparation, if fiften minutes, 3 days, if half an hour, 2 days, if 1 hour, I’m ready now – Woodrow Wilson

On Teams

None of us is as smart as all of us – Ken Blanchard

On Priorities

If everything is important, nothing is important – LTG Rick Lynch

On Boldness

Seize this very minute, what you can do, or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe