Do You Have One of “the Three W’s” to Sit on a Board of Directors?

August 13, 2012 by 3 Comments

Kevin describes three key behaviors, the three W’s of Wealth, Work, and Wisdom, for board of director candidates and board directors.

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Why I Do Not Support The Current PASS ExeCo Slate

August 31, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Kevin gives the reasons he cannot endorse the PASS 2012 Executive Committee as currently proposed.

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Leadership, Management, and SQLRally

April 25, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Transparency – A Great Leadership Quality I’ve always appreciated how Andy Warren (blog| twitter) operates in the most transparent manner, especially as it relates to his role as a director for the Professional Association for SQL Server. For example, Andy’s latest blog post about prepping for the SQLRally, to kick off in less than 30 [...]

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Plays Well With Others – Eight Behaviors of Excellent Leaders

November 27, 2010 by 1 Comment

Even a quick list of crucial leadership characteristics, like I’m presenting here, offers a lot of practical advice.

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Plays Well With Others – Metrics to the Max!

November 6, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Here’s a quick primer on key performance indicators, which might even be enough for you to get started.

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Pirates of PASS: Curse of the Elections Process

November 5, 2010 by 1 Comment

Cross posted from Jorge Segarra’s blog The last few weeks we’ve watched the drama unfold in regards to the PASS BOD elections. We’ve seen people attack criticize the NomCom, the board, PASS itself, the process and the decision of feeding of Gremlins after midnight. Thankfully the fireworks have died down and we can take a look [...]

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Carol McGury Speaks Out on Not-For-Profit Governance

November 5, 2010 by Leave a Comment

The object of the vetting process is to select nominees for an officer or director position who best suit the leadership needs of the association.

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Plays Well With Others – Successful Directors versus Successful Technologists

October 23, 2010 by Leave a Comment

The skills that enable a person to be a top-tier database professional have very little to do with being a successful member of a board of directors.

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Broken or Just Bent? #passvotes

September 14, 2010 by 1 Comment

Cross Posted from TimMitchell.net Though things have died down a bit since the initial backlash, the recent development in the PASS board election process is still the talk of the town.  I’ve had the opportunity to talk to a number of folks about this, and have read some excellent blogs and other opinion pieces from [...]

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#passvotes Tweaks and Data Geeks: PASS Election 2011

September 10, 2010 by 1 Comment

Cross posted from Stuart Ainsworth’s codegumbo. Obviously, the angst over the 2010 PASS elections still lives on for some, and some of you are probably ready to move on to more immediate concerns, but as for me, I’m stuck here trying to figure out what I should learn from all of this.  I do think [...]

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