Archive for July, 2010

Four Key Leadership Roles: Strategizer

As Strategizers, leaders are responsible for developing strategies to accomplish what they conceptualized.  Once leaders conceptualize, they need to develop ways to get from ideas to results.  Strategies provide approaches to ensure that a vision becomes a reality or that a product or service idea becomes a reality in order to produce revenue and profits.  Strategizing [...]

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Four Key Leadership Roles: Conceptualizer

As I mentioned in my last post, there are four critical leadership roles: Conceptualizer Strategizer Actualizer Maximizer In this post, I will delve into the first role: Conceptualizer. As Conceptualizers, leaders are responsible for crafting ideas, visions, goals and objectives for their organizations.   They must be creating constantly.  Business is very dynamic and requires constant [...]

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Four Key Leadership Roles

In my next blog series, I will explore four key roles that leaders play in business: Conceptualizer Strategizer Actualizer Maximizer When you boil it down, these four roles capture the essence of leadership.  Leaders in all realms of leadership spend a great deal of time doing things that fit one of these four areas: Conceptualizing [...]

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Backup Compression in SQL Server 2008

As a DBA who services numerous customers and clients, an issue that crops up relatively often is the need for more disk space. As an organization you do have options: Trim your data Buy new disks Truncate your data (Yeah right!!) For most organizations these are truly not options at all. With the release of [...]

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