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DISCIPLINE: Six Steps to Unleashing Your Hidden Potential |
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DISCIPLINE: Mentoring Children For Success |
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| | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Harris Kern
Harris Kern Enterprise Computing Institute
818 404 9248
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| | Harris Kern’s Enterprise Computing Institute announce IT PEOPLE: Doing More With Less |
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| | This book is intended for every IT professional who faces the constant challenge of performing a big job with ever-shrinking departmental resources. Whether you are a manager or an individual contributor, this book is for you. It will help you improve your ability to plan your work and, meet your commitments while being an effective political actor. Our aim in this book is to provide you with a tool that will not only help you deliver greater value to your organization, but do so in a way that provides a greater degree of job satisfaction and quality of life.
IT PEOPLE: Doing More With Less is intended as a practical tool, not a theoretical book. As a result, the book provides guidance on real problems faced by IT professionals: problems that impact their ability to be effective. It seeks to arm the IT professional with the knowledge to acquire discipline and empower him with resolve to build a competitive organization.
Chapter 1, “Building a Competitive IT Organization,” looks at the people problem in IT and why IT is singled out. Before setting off on solving the IT people problem, it is important to get our arms around how ‘big and bad’ that problem is by looking at the key components in building the ideal IT organization.
Chapter 2, “IT People Issues and Challenges: Solutions for IT Professionals,” provides practical, experience-based guidance for IT professionals seeking to tackle top IT people issues. To do more with less, IT professionals must know their discipline and exercise discipline in moments of truth to ensure that the right things get done right.
Chapter 3, “The Disciplines of the IT Profession,” outlines the groups of tasks that typically make up jobs in IT. Understanding what could be on your plate is an important first step in reorganizing that plate.
Chapter 4, “The Discipline of the IT Professional,” outlines how individual IT professionals can organize their work and time to do the right things right.
Chapter 5, “Discipline Mentoring: Helping IT People Excel at the IT Organization Level,” introduces Discipline Mentoring as a method within the IT function that can help develop and coach IT professionals in the discipline it takes to realize change within the department. The chapter also provides ideas for teaching personal and technical disciplines to all employees, outlining a formal mentoring program for the entire IT team.
Chapter 6, “IT Politics: A Primer for IT Professionals,” is a guide to the political landscape of the IT profession. It provides advice on understanding and successfully navigating political waters and improving individual political skills. The advice this chapter provides is vital, as no one at any level can expect to be successful without an understanding of the politics that exists in organizations. Power and politics is forever the backdrop that sometimes becomes obstacles to success. This chapter discusses the concept of politics. It then goes on to describe how to attain a sense of power within the political environment, and how to successfully swim with the sharks, a situation in which most IT professionals regularly find themselves.
Chapter 7, “Performance Management: Helping IT People Excel at the Enterprise Level,” introduces Performance Management as a tool implemented at the level of business to ensure that IT will realize the most significant and longest lasting improvement. A People Performance Management Plan is outlined as an enterprise-wide method for aligning goals and managing performance across the organization.
About the Authors
Harris Kern is the author of 26 books. He is recognized as the foremost authority on providing practical guidance for solving IT management issues and challenges. He has devoted over twenty-five years helping IT professionals build competitive IT organizations. He combines the experiences of an IT executive, self-help expert, performance coach, and sought-after consultant for the benefits of clients worldwide.
Harris’s clients list reads like a who’s who of American and International Business. His client list includes Standard and Poor’s, GE, The Weather Channel, NEWS Corporation, Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminal (HACTL), among hundreds of other Fortune500 and Global 2000 companies.
Harris is the founder and driving force behind the Harris Kern Enterprise Computing Institute (www.harriskern.com) and the best-selling Enterprise Computing Institute series of books published by Prentice Hall. As founder of the Enterprise Computing Institute, he has brought together the industry’s leading minds to publish “how-to” textbooks on the critical issues the IT industry faces. The series includes titles such as:
• IT Services,
• IT Organization,
• High Availability,
• CIO Wisdom,
• Managing IT as an Investment, among others.
Harris is also one of the world’s leading self-discipline and peak performance experts. He is a frequent speaker and seminar leader at business and IT management conferences. Harris’s passion is to help people excel in their career and personal life by guiding them on how to acquire discipline. He pioneered the Discipline Mentoring Program™ and IT Performance Mentoring Program™. Harris is the author of:
• DISCIPLINE: Six Steps To Unleashing Your Hidden Potential
• DISCIPLINE: Training The Mind To Manage Your Life
• DISCIPLINE: Mentoring Children For Success
Harris introduces a formula of success for the IT professional. His vision brings the world of IT and self-discipline together to properly address the people issues in IT. His goal is to arm IT professionals with the right tool to empower them to become more productive not only in their career but also for their personal life as well. His latest “discipline oriented” book is title IT PEOPLE: Doing More With Less.
Joanne Giudicelli is a passionate consultant, entrepreneur, author, and university professor on the many facets of human capital management. After a ten-year career as an IT professional, a seventeen-year career building and running a medium-sized search firm, she has coauthored HIRE POWER: A Radical New Strategy for Defining and Executing Successful Hiring to be published in the spring, 2006. She has helped developed and teach courses to graduate students (MS, HR program at Golden Gate University) in both Performance Management and Managing the Employment Function.
Joanne spends her free time with her husband, her three sons, and the many dogs and cats that she considers family. She is usually accompanied by a Guide Dog for the Blind puppy-in-training, a program in which she has volunteered her time for the past five years.
Helene Dublisky is an IT executive, certified executive coach, and author. With more than twenty years in IT management, Helene has worked with large and small organizations in the for-profit and the non-profit environments in the US and in Europe. She is coauthor of HIRE POWER: A Radical New Strategy for Defining and Executing Successful Hiring to be published in the spring, 2006. She teaches in the Masters in Information Systems program at the University of San Francisco where she has developed a class in organizational politics and power, and also teaches courses in Human Resource and Project Management.
Helene lives with her husband and her dog in the San Francisco Bay Area, and enjoys cooking, reading, walking, and scuba diving.
David Pultorak is a recognized authority in the management of IT. He has devoted nineteen years to helping organizations better manage IT for business value. Prior to his nine years in consulting, he spent ten years at Johnson & Johnson, where he managed client support and data center operations. David holds a Masters degree in IT and Organizational Science from the University of Pennsylvania. He has been an adjunct professor since 1989, most recently at Philadelphia University, and is a founding member of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Organizational Dynamics. David is regularly featured in leading industry magazines and Web sites, including BetterManagement.com, Data Center Management, Support World, and ITSMwatch.com. David’s most recent books are the popular “MOF, A Pocket Guide” (Van Haren Publishing, 2003), which has been translated into six languages; and “The Definitive Guide to IT Service Management for the Adaptive Enterprise” (Realtime Publishers, 2004). In addition to ITIL and MOF, David has earned a number of technical certifications, including Novell CNE, Microsoft MCT and MCSE, ICCP CCP, CDP, and CSP, and HP Certified Consultant.
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