Don Tennant

What to Do if You Get Multiple Job Offers Having spent 17 years of my career in Asia, I’ve long encouraged IT professionals to consider relocating outside of the United States, not just to advance their careers, but to enable them and their families to reap the many benefits of that experience. So when someone […]

Data Center Applications and the Cloud: What You Need to Know Think about it: For as long as the IT distribution channel has existed, it’s been all about distributing boxes of stuff to resellers. So what’s happening to that entire ecosystem now that so much of the technology that used to be delivered in boxes […]

Toughest Cities to Recruit Tech Talent Over the past several years, a lot of organizations have done a great job of dramatically reducing their IT costs by going to the cloud and adopting an on-demand computing model. As significant as that is, however, the fact remains that technology isn’t a company’s largest expense, not by […]

Why Our Addiction to Work Is Making Us Stupid, Depressed, Unhealthy, and Hurting Our Career In recent years, I’ve spoken with a lot of baby-boomer IT professionals who are approaching the twilight phase of their careers, and I’ve found that many tend to be pensive as they look back on the work they’ve done to […]

Game On for Gamification Some would have us believe that PowerPoint is inherently dangerous. No doubt, they make a compelling argument. One need not witness the lifelessness of  more than a handful of moribund meetings, conferences, or classes where PowerPoint is being wielded to recognize that the threat of slaughtered interest and engagement is all […]

The Nine Most Despised Work Personalities To the extent that there is a degree of contention between some U.S. IT workers and their colleagues who are working in this country on H-1B visas, the contention often stems from the difficulty the two constituencies have in communicating with each other. For H-1B workers here from India, […]

Tech Employment Picture Bright for Start of 2014 An extraordinary initiative to narrow the tech gender gap is being launched today by Entelo, a San Francisco-based software startup, and CodeEd, a Boston-based nonprofit that provides training in computer science and programming skills for underprivileged middle-school girls. Entelo has developed a software platform that leverages social […]

Seven Reasons Marketers Must Pay Attention to Big Data It’s amazing what some companies will do to get your attention so they can sell you stuff. Take, for example, those companies that are spending $4 million for a 30-second ad to get your attention during Sunday’s Super Bowl. Did you ever wonder how much those […]

Toughest Cities to Recruit Tech Talent Companies tend to do a lot of hand-wringing over employee retention as they strive to minimize the negative financial and operational impact of employee turnover. Their employee retention efforts often involve some sort of benchmarking process, to give them some sense of how their turnover rates compare to those […]

Five Tips to Give Leaders a Jump on the New Year Imagine that you’re a technology professional from India who’s working in the United States, and that the communication challenges you face in that capacity are exacerbated by the fact that you’re a fairly strong introvert. Your communication skills are so poor, in fact, that […]

In a recent post, I wrote about Dr. Gordon Curphy, an industrial and organizational psychologist and leadership consultant who maintains that there has been a collapse in the confidence that we as a society have in our leadership. According to Curphy, this collapse is largely attributable to a widespread inability among leaders to build cohesive, […]

Ten Approaches to Protecting Mobile Data A GPS location-shifting technology developed to protect the safety and privacy of single people on a popular social discovery app is being groomed for licensing to other app developers and phone manufacturers so users of social media can selectively appear to be someplace they’re not. SinglesAroundMe has advanced its […]