Kevin describes three key behaviors, the three W’s of Wealth, Work, and Wisdom, for board of director candidates and board directors.
Do You Have One of “the Three W’s” to Sit on a Board of Directors?
Filed Under: Ethics, Governance, PASS, Professional Development, SQL Server, SQLMag, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Career, Management, Plays Well With Others, Professional Development, SQLPASS
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
Why Do IT Pros Make Awful Managers?
If you’re like many IT pros, it starts to sink in that all of those skills which made you ‘the awesome’ as an technologist are =NOT= transferrable to the management work you’ve now got on your plate. Learn why and how to fix it.
Filed Under: Challenges, Opinion, Professional Development, SQLMag, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Career, Leadership, Management
Microsoft Document Watch for Operational Excellence
Filed Under: Administration, Architecture, Compliance, Cool Technologies, Hardware, On-Line Resources, Security, SQL Server, SQLMag, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Strategies, TCD blog post, Tips & Tricks, Virtualization Tagged With: Architecture, Best Practices, Compliance, DBA, Enterprise Architecture, Management, Operations, Performance, Security, SQL Server 2008 R2, Tools, Troubleshooting
Free Webcast Series: Patterns and Practices in Database Administration
SSWUG.ORG’s virtual webcasts will prepare the “Accidental DBA” for patterns and practices they will experience in their role as a database administrator. SQL Server MVP Kevin Kline will provide easy-to-understand insights and realistic examples for professionals who have not had any formal DBA training.
Filed Under: Administration, Challenges, Databases, Presentations, Professional Development, SQL Server, SQLMag, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Career, DBA, Management, Performance, Professional Development, SQL Server 2008 R2, Training
Funny Things You’ll Hear at the “Leadership for IT Professionals” at the 2011 SQLRally
The skills that enabled us to become top tier technologists don’t transfer into the management arena. This seminar will fill in those gaps.
Filed Under: Conferences, PASS, Presentations, Professional Development, SQLMag, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Best Practices, Humor, Management, Plays Well With Others, Professional Development, SQLPASS, Training
Efficiency and Effectiveness at Work [Video]
How can we be both efficient and effective in our day to day life and career – aimed at the SQL Server professional, but good for anyone.
Filed Under: Challenges, Opinion, Professional Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Video Tagged With: Career, Management, Plays Well With Others, Professional Development, Video
Plays Well With Others – So You’re the Boss Now…
Filed Under: Ethics, Opinion, Professional Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Career, Management, Plays Well With Others, Professional Development
DBTA: The Shape of Database Licensing Costs to Come
I barely survived the experience and never took an 8 a.m. class again, but I was surprised to see that I can now predict what Microsoft SQL Server database licensing will cost in 2011 and beyond.
Filed Under: Databases, DBTA, Opinion, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Trends Tagged With: DBA, DBTA, Licensing, Management, news analysis, Society
Plays Well With Others – Eight Behaviors of Excellent Leaders
Even a quick list of crucial leadership characteristics, like I’m presenting here, offers a lot of practical advice.
Filed Under: Ethics, Governance, Opinion, Professional Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Career, Management, Plays Well With Others, Professional Development, WorldView
