@chuckgregory wrote: " I learned that the best way to promote my ideas was to feed just enough of my thought process to my boss that he'd come up with the idea on his own."
Yup. That's the way to do it. The challenge is that, like the character in "Wag the Dog", you need to be okay with not getting the credit.
That is not really a bad idea, if that is the only way to get the job done you do not have much options but play the game. Lots of smart ideas are getting lost because of politics in the workplaces. Companies that are able to pay attention and filter these ideas successfully are the one leading the markets. Wether is is your boss or subordinate, if you know a way to get your idea be considered I say go with it regardless of how many people call you 'manipulator'.
In my years working within the typical corporate structures, I learned that the best way to promote my ideas was to feed just enough of my thought process to my boss that he'd come up with the idea on his own. This worked several times over the course of my career, and one or two of them picked up on it along the way. I don't remember anyone being upset about it although I might have been called a 'manipulator' once or twice...
Speech recognition isn't exactly HAL9000 yet... I'm impressed with the advances of speech recognition over the years, but on an absolute scale, it's still disappointing.
Looking at how Google Voice transcribes my voicemails... there still isn't software that will "wreck a nice beach" better than humans.
IT needs to look ate its role in the organization and finds out how it can be an Enabler for the business to gain competitive advantage in this dynamically changing world. This requires a mindset change in IT world. IT is never going to hold the keys on everything in the organization.
@mitch - good call on speech recognition. Was it only twenty years ago when picard had a little hand-held tabet thing and ... oh wait. I've got one of those now. It's called an iPad.
@jason wrote - "On one hand, they want IT professionals to keep up with trends, as you say, but on the other hand, they think by doing so, is wasting valuable time and resources (meaning money) so it's like, where do you when at this game? "
Yup. I'm sad to have to agree with you. Those of us who invest a little bit of extra time and effort into figuring this out at lunch, or at night, or in our discretionary time, will (hopefully) reap the rewards. My blogging here will include a little bit of how to get to fast/valuable improvement quick. More to come!
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