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InfoWeek: The Five Core Competencies For Developing IT Leaders

Departmental directors should have mastered the basics of managing people, including teaming, motivation, follow-up, task assignment, legal issues, communications, and company policies. But many haven’t. High-potential directors often have gotten to where they are because of their deep personal knowledge of an area, a favorable set of circumstances, or a great team. Often, my first step in developing a high-potential director is to move him or her to a new area under a different VP and monitor carefully how the director and VP manage the change.

InfoWeek: The Five Core Competencies For Developing IT Leaders

From this InfoWeek article… (Source)

Departmental directors should have mastered the basics of managing people, including teaming, motivation, follow-up, task assignment, legal issues, communications, and company policies. But many haven’t. High-potential directors often have gotten to where they are because of their deep personal knowledge of an area, a favorable set of circumstances, or a great team. Often, my first step in developing a high-potential director is to move him or her to a new area under a different VP and monitor carefully how the director and VP manage the change.

Progress

TechNet: SharePoint 2010 Records Management Planning

Includes an overview, creating a file plan, physical records, ediscovery, and archive versus in place records management in SharePoint 2010.

MSDN Blog: Introducing Records Management in SharePoint 2010

Discusses use of the records center archive and in place records management. They have about half a dozen other records management articles as well.

By the Dusk’s Late Light

From a Photographic History of Santa Monica Airport (12.3MB PDF) by Robert Trimborn (with the related narrative here). Aside from the soloar panels, this ought to look familiar to any McBreen.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

Warren Buffet