Don Tennant

Last week I wrote about a fascinating conversation I’d had with Dr. Laurie Helgoe, a psychologist, author and avowed introvert, about some of the challenges introverts confront in our extroverted society. Given the preponderance of introverts in the IT profession, I found Helgoe’s insights not only illuminating for people who are attracted to IT, but […]

For as long as I’ve been covering the IT sector and speaking with IT professionals about the challenges they confront, a perennial sore spot has been training. IT professionals rarely seem to be satisfied with the training opportunities made available by their employers, especially when it comes to training in the technical skills they need […]

It’s difficult for a lot of us Americans to wrap our heads around the corporate mindset underlying the fact that Indian IT services providers so frequently engage in activities that get them into legal hot water in the United States. A recent discussion in the Indian media sheds a helpful light on that phenomenon. A […]

The fact that you’re reading this on IT Business Edge means you’re probably in IT. And that means you’re probably an introvert. I’m here to tell you it’s time, once and for all, to recognize that that’s OK. Actually, I’m just a messenger here to convey that sentiment, one that I took away from one […]

Here’s an unpleasant fact: You’ve already almost certainly told a lie today, and you’ll almost certainly tell a few more before the day is over. But don’t feel too bad—the same is true of just about every other IT professional out there, and just about everybody else, for that matter. Maybe it was in an […]

IT leaders can find themselves seeking responses to questions in any number of scenarios, from interviewing job candidates to negotiating with vendors to find the right services provider for a multi-million-dollar project. Regardless of the scenario, the ability to tell when a person is being less than honest can be a career-saving talent. Enter, of […]

There’s a lot that IT leaders can learn from the tragic downfall of cyclist Lance Armstrong, and it all circles back to the critical nature of valuing the team over the individual. That’s the message of Dr. Bruce Piasecki, founder and president of management consulting firm AHC Group, and author of the forthcoming book. “Doing […]

As the outcome of the U.S. government’s visa fraud investigation of Infosys looms, the company has enlisted the assistance of a small, India-based IT services company to find 10 immigration paralegals to beef up its immigration management operations in Plano, Texas. The paralegals will be tasked with reviewing Labor Condition Applications (the documents that a […]

It has always seemed like an insurmountable injustice. Despite the social advances we’ve made in so many other areas in the last 50 years, the gender wage gap has been perplexingly persistent, yielding no indication that anything will ever change. But futurist David Houle insists that within 20 years, that deplorable gap will finally be […]

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, several companies displayed brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, which is all about directing computer and robotic activity by means of thought as the input. It’s a sobering, if fascinating, technological endeavor, considering the potential ramifications of a technology that explores the final frontier of a person’s […]

Last week, Infosys held a lengthy press conference in India to discuss its financial results for its third quarter, which ended on Dec. 31. And once again, the Indian press demonstrated its meekness by failing to compel Infosys executives to address the dark cloud hanging over the company as it awaits the outcome of the […]

If you want to get a really good idea of what the future holds for the realm of training and education, take a look at that realm through a pair of augmented-reality goggles. That’s one of my takeaways from a fascinating interview I had recently with David Houle, a futurist, speaker and author of the […]