It's been exactly a year since I started blogging and so I thought it would be good to reflect on my experience so far.
When I set out, I wanted a means to communicate my experience as a manager to anyone considering the move. I've continued to keep the primary focus of my articles to management and leadership, however there has been the odd time when I could have blogged about other areas. This is something I think I'll do in the future.
As part of our interview process for new engineers at Ephox the final stage is the Coffee Interview.
Tagged Ephox, Recruiting
Over the last year I've been working on building better relationships with our local universities. I see this serving two purposes. Firstly, it provides an avenue for promoting Ephox and subsequently using this self-promotion as a means to attract high quality staff. Secondly, it is a way to give back to the industry and help attract more people into IT.
So as part of this outreach, I jumped at the opportunity to present as a guest lecturer at QUT recently. The subject, Core Project Management, has provision for guest lecturers so we took up the offer to present two lectures.
I was recently introduced to TED or Technology, Entertainment and Design. If you haven't heard of it, it's well worth checking out. Their by-line is "Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers" and the site has videos of presentations from past conferences.
When I first became interested in hackers and computer security many years ago, the first book I read was "The Cuckoos Egg" by Clifford Stoll. Clifford is the astronomer who back in the late 80's while working at Berkeley noticed the intrusion and ultimately helped capture the hacker working for the KGB .
I was reading an article, "Cultivate Commitment" by Julia Stirling, in The Weekend Australian recently that resonated with my belief that management and leadership is about people. The focus of the article was on employee commitment and the part management plays on the level of commitment.
Keeping employees engaged is one of the biggest challenges for managers. Happy people are productive people, and research suggests relationships are the biggest single determinant of productivity within a group.
