Kevin Kline describes highlights from the last ten years at Quest Software and why he is moving on to new opportunities.
A Fond Farewell to Quest Software
Filed Under: Challenges, Professional Development, SQL Server, SQLMag, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Goals, Leadership, MVP, Professional Development, Quest Software, Writing
ITPro, Re-architect Your Life
Kevin Kline and the Aspiring Geek, Jimmy May, discuss ways to re-architect your life and resources to make it easier.
Filed Under: Conferences, On-Line Resources, Presentations, Professional Development, SQLMag, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Career, Goals, Leadership, Management, Plays Well With Others, Professional Development
New on “Database Trends & Applications”
In last month’s column, “2012 Might Really Be the End of the World as We Know It,” I described a number of major developments in the IT industry that are likely to disrupt the life of database professionals everywhere
Filed Under: Administration, Challenges, Cool Technologies, Databases, IO, Opinion, SQL Server, SQLMag, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Virtualization Tagged With: Best Practices, Career, DBA, DBTA, Developer, FutureWatch, Goals, Virtualization
Leadership, Management, and SQLRally
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 [...]
Filed Under: Conferences, Governance, Interviews, PASS, Professional Development, SQL Server, SQLMag, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Strategies, Video Tagged With: Career, Goals, Plays Well With Others, Professional Development, SQLPASS, Training
Plays Well With Others – Upsizing Your Skills With OCW
Good directors, indeed good strategic leaders of all stripes, usually have at least one or more of these skills: strategic planning, visionary goals, and emotional intelligence.
Filed Under: On-Line Resources, Opinion, Professional Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Strategies, Tips & Tricks Tagged With: Best Practices, Career, Goals, Plays Well With Others, Professional Development
PASS 2009 Lifetime PASSion Award
Filed Under: Opinion, PASS, Professional Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Goals, Humor, Professional Development, SQLSaturday
What Three Events Brought You Here?
Whiners and Whingers Get Wedgies There I was, just a couple weeks back, whining that I wasn’t getting tagged by friends when a new meme comes out. Sure enough, when my friend, Paul Randal (blog | twitter), starts a new meme with me as one of the first handful of people tagged, it’s taken me [...]
Filed Under: Memes, Opinion, PASS, Professional Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Creativity, Goals, Professional Development, Writing
Goals and Theme Word for 2010
NOT A WHINER I’ve been really intrigued by a meme making the rounds of the blogsphere concerning goals for the coming year and picking a theme word, rather than the usual New Year’s resolution. As with all memes, they start with a blogger picking the topic of discussion (in this case, Tara Hunt at HPC) [...]
Filed Under: Memes, Opinion, Professional Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Goals, Professional Development, Theme Words
