I was looking through materials I save to write my next post and I came across the following quote: “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” I do not know where I got it from, but it made a quick and strong impression on me.  I believe that [...]

Human error accounts for a large percentage of the problems encountered in information technology.  There are plenty of opportunities to make mistakes in our business.  We are working with complex systems and large amounts of data.  With so much to do and so many distractions in our environment, it is almost impossible to operate without [...]

Time Management is one of the most common challenges people face in today’s businesses.  IT Managers are often pulled in so many directions—most of which are outside their control.  Demand often outstrips the supply of your time.  Calendars, in-baskets and task lists are full with no end in sight, especially lately as most of us [...]

Step 4:  Mastering Your Paradox In this final step, you will develop strategies to help you reduce and eliminate bad stress from your life.  Stress has many short and long term negative connotations.  It has been shown to affect your mood, looks, intelligence, and immune system.  Stress has a big impact on relationships, wealth and [...]

Step 2:  Identify Your “Vital Few” BAD Stressors Now that you hopefully have a better understanding of the stress dynamics, we can move to the next step of identifying your “vital few” bad stressors.  In this phase you need to make a list of whom or what makes you most stressed most often.  Once you [...]

IT Managers have one of the most stressful jobs.  As an IT Manager, learning to recognize, manage, mitigate and eliminate stress can make an immediate and significant difference in the quality of your life and on your ability to accomplish better and bigger things. The goal of this post is to help IT managers master [...]