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Breaking Down the Glass Walls

December 20, 2016 by John Kenworthy

Principles of Successful Tech Leadership Bridging the Gaps to Unity of Cohesion and Effort Between Tech Leadership and the Business Dr John Kenworthy and Barbara Dossetter The common ground is the frustrations with scope creep, budget specifications, programme management and poor leadership. Unfortunately, this hasn’t changed in 40 years, and won’t change until both parties ante up to the bar properly. As the need for projects has exponentially … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership, Talent Management, Tech Leadership Tagged With: CIO, CTO, Frustrations, influence, IT, Management, Management Talent, Manager, Programme, Project, Research, Stakeholders, talent, tech leaders

Two powerful tips to quickly reduce productivity in your team

April 18, 2015 by John Kenworthy Leave a Comment

The world is going productivity crazy. And Singapore is along for the ride. Go to your local hawker market and count how many hawkers are still preparing fresh food for your pleasure and nourishment. Pop into the kitchen of an up-market restaurant and see how much pre-prepared, mass-produced ingredients are being used. Place your order for Katong Laksa on an iPad and pray your fat fingers hit the right buttons as they strive to improve performance. This isn't bad in and of itself. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership, Talent Management Tagged With: influence, performance, productivity, talent

What’s your real talent? Or, who’s bag are you unpacking?

May 3, 2014 by John Kenworthy 6 Comments

You're waiting by the baggage carousel after a long flight. You’re tired from a week of meetings and your body aches from the airline seat. Your bag appears and you gratefully grab it and head through the green channel to the taxi queue and head straight to the hotel. Tomorrow is a big day for you. Months of work on that project are coming to a conclusion. It's taken more than a year to get these people in a room together. Tomorrow is your day. The traffic is horrendous and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Talent Management Tagged With: talent

How to Find Your Talent

February 15, 2014 by John Kenworthy Leave a Comment

It was 4.30 on a cold and wet morning and I was choking on the stench of thick layers of years old grease behind the deep fat fryer and I was ecstatically happy as I scrubbed and cleaned the once white tiles back to their original gleaming brightness. It was my first day on my first proper job and I would soon be delegating this filthy work to some other poor sap who similarly wanted to become a chef de cuisine. In the meantime, my job was to scrub, peel, haul, carry, chop, clear and clean it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Talent Management Tagged With: Gladwell, Management Talent, talent

The Real War for Talent

January 27, 2014 by John Kenworthy Leave a Comment

The war is not to find talent; it’s to use the talent you have already. The search for talent is ongoing. Individuals seek to develop their talents, companies seek to identify talent and retain it, succession planning requires it, politicians plan for it, and the world wants to find it. But what is it? I was having dinner at a friend’s home and the subject came up because their 11 year old son had recently brought home his school report card which stated from his art teacher: “[His] … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Talent Management Tagged With: Attitude, Has Talent, Malcolm Gladwell, Management Talent, Real War, Seth Godin, talent, Talent Myth

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