Overly authoritarian and bureaucratic IT managers are bad for morale and productivity and are making their staff sick.
It's that time of year again when we look back and ponder what happened in the last 12 months. Here ZDNet Australia has collected some of the more colourful, amusing and insightful quotes that have passed through our pages in that time.
The new bosses of troubled telco AAPT will split their time between Australia and New Zealand as the company's Kiwi owner, Telecom New Zealand, applies a shared accountability model it claims has worked wonders in its homeland.
St George Bank plans to acquire a customer relationship management-style platform allowing investigators to better track potentially illegal transactions as part of measures to crack down on fraud and money laundering.
There is no debating, a good boss can either make or break you. Do you have an experience with a boss (from hell) that you would like to share?
Shareholders got a rude awakening this week as Stephen Conroy made good on industry calls to break up Telstra. Some argue the government has been duplicitous and should be held to account, but those who sit tight may find the new Telstra offers a far better value proposition with better long-term opportunities.
It's hardly news that Telstra's corporate philosophy has become one of incessant whinging and strongarming since CEO Sol Trujillo rolled into town, but over the past week the company took its rhetoric to another level ...
Company president and chief operating officer Dirk Meyer is being groomed to succeed Hector Ruiz, but first he must prove that last year's engineering mistakes were an aberration.
Welcome to the CIO Vision Series and congratulations to Cesare Tizi, who was awarded the ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year award for 2007. Tizi was recognised for the work he did while successfully leading Australia's largest energy supplier, AGL Energy, through a period of intense change.
At some stage, many people will find themselves asking why they left that great little job to take a turn in the management ranks. Let's take a few minutes to consider how you can avoid becoming a member of this group.
IT chiefs at financial services organisations should encourage staff to take greater control of business decisions, says JP Rangaswami, global CIO at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.
There is no debating, a good boss can either make or break you. Do you have an experience with a boss (from hell) that you would like to share?
A "walk around" management style and lots of time travelling makes Cesare Tizi, ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year 2007, a fan of mobile computing. However, he is still looking for the perfect device -- one that has "snappy" performance, a decent screen, long battery life and a fast, cheap connection to the Web.
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