communication

Enterprise architects need to be good communicators #2 Larry…

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Enterprise architects need to be good communicators #2

Larry Wall, author of the PERL programming language once said,

People understand instinctively that the best way for computer programs to communicate with each other is for each of the them to be strict in what they emit, and liberal in what they accept. The odd thing is that people themselves are not willing to be strict in how they speak, and liberal in how they listen. You’d think that would also be obvious. Instead, we’re taught to express ourselves.

People speak with intent. Good communication means responding to someone’s intention, not their words.

Speak (and write) correctly and clearly. Listen graciously.

Enterprise architects need to be good communicators. Actioning…

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Enterprise architects need to be good communicators.

Actioning instead of doing. Impacting instead of affecting. Progress instead of continue. Moving forward and incentivising with respect to the upside.

It is easy to see that the cliches and jargon of today’s office culture are all about giving the impression of mastery, energy and success. 

They don’t.

If you really wish to convey intelligence and competence, speak and write in plain English. 

Dangling Conversation

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@markhillary asks “When you follow company Twitter accounts, do you like being able to see who runs the account, like a named person on the profile?”

I think that depends how gullible you are. When I get a letter signed by an Important Person, I gener…

Employers ask for Facebook passwords but not social skills

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Lately there has been a lot of buzz about employers asking potential employees for their Facebook passwords. I heard yet another story about this over the weekend. While I don’t feel employers should be asking for social media passwords, this post is more about the irony that employers want social passwords but are not asking […]

IT job postings ask for the wrong thing

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My report “Job Postings – Hiring for IT’s Past” published today on Gartner.com. This Gartner for Technical Professionals (GTP) report is a wake-up call for IT organizations because it shows that most IT organizations are hiring for the wrong requirements. In late 2011 and early 2012 we sampled current job postings in six major job […]