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Leadership
That line has been sitting with me lately, and it reflects the reality of IT leadership more than people realize. As an IT Director, the day doesn’t stay in one lane. It’s budgets, policies, vendor conversations, onboarding new hires, planning a help desk space, refreshing systems, and keeping the environment stable...
Leadership
Spend enough time in technology and you start to notice something interesting. The people who make the biggest impact in IT are not always the ones who know the most commands, the most programming languages, or the deepest architecture diagrams. Technical skill matters, but it is not the skill that ultimately defines...
Leadership
Early in our careers, most of us are rewarded for being responsible. We build the system. We fix the outage. We make it work. That competence gets noticed and often becomes the reason we are promoted. At some point, though, responsibility turns into accountability, and that transition is rarely discussed out loud...
Technology
A lot of projects stall because the original vision sounds good in a meeting but never becomes something you can execute. Leaders talk about better student experiences, faster response times, stronger cybersecurity, or more automation. The ideas are solid. The problem is that the teams responsible for delivering them...
Leadership
Have we really designed our systems for the people we serve, or just for the people who have always been here? Higher education is now serving five generations of students at once, and each brings a different expectation of what “great service” looks like. There’s the traditional student who grew up online and expects...
Leadership
Have you ever stopped to think about who’s sitting around your table — not in title or rank, but in influence, perspective, and curiosity? Over the years, I’ve learned that growth often happens through the people we spend time with. The phrase “if you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room” isn’t...
Technology
Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is one of those subjects people acknowledge but rarely prioritize until a disruption happens. At that point everyone realizes how critical it is. A BCP is not a binder gathering dust. It is a framework that keeps an organization moving forward when uncertainty is at its highest. The...
Technology
Have you ever stopped to calculate how much value you gain from just 10 minutes saved each day? At first, it doesn’t sound like much. But those 10 minutes a day add up to roughly 60 hours a year. For many organizations, that could mean over $2,000 in value saved per employee. When multiplied across a team or...
