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60. AVAYA crashed, not coming back up with Anthon Encao

Anthon Encao… now IT manager at Amazon
Has years of high-level government security clearance
The last network he managed couldn’t even touch the public Internet.
His raw truths and advice start with, “It’s not easier it’s harder”
“Good IT costs more mone…

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59. How to Stop Shadow IT from Ruining Your Life

On this episode James Ordinans (Senior Information Technology Manager at Hydrite) and Phil Howard Discuss:
Solutions & Results, not Tools & Toys
IT shouldn’t be just a Service Center
How to build a business tech solution
P&L versus EBITA
IT Business Trai…

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58. 27 years in IT Not Avoiding Every Disaster at the Same Company

On this episode Greg Altmam (IT Infrastructure Manager at Swiff-Train Company) and Phil Howard Discuss..
EOL Disasters Avoided
Forklifting to Flexibility
Predating Ethernet IBM Mainframes
The Macro that turning 10 days into 3 hrs
Salted Shortel & Cisco L…

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57. What year did IT paranoia set in?

Michael (the great bearded) McClure and I had a talk of sorts on Dissecting Popular IT Nerds…
We also talked about what other IT Directors actually do for fun
Like Snowmobiling and freezing icicles off one’s beard, aka “beardicles”
Some of the show hig…

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56. Huffing Fiberglass Fumes & Living the IT Dream

From Boat Building & Working with Wood to….
Building a Career
Using IT to Build a Business Foundation
A real Y2K Failure
Loving Your Job
Scaling a business technically to the point that product is flying off the shelf
Exploding Companies
Data Analysis

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55. Weird IT Guy Kills IT in Sales & Marketing

This show is the KEY to business success and only a few of you are going to hear this… so take the ideas… run with it… and make millions before everyone hears this show.  
About:
Weird IT Guy (with 800 End-Users) Kills IT in Sales & Marketing
Why i…

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54. Falling into IT leadership in the Congo

For this man, reality is that his staff gets killed for their mobile devices.
So it needs to be easy for him to wipe devices remotely and unlock them.
Back story…
Ed Lopez fell into IT,
and has been truly leading ever since.
On this episode he covers h…

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53. IT mentoring is this episode (interactive human skills).

IT mentoring is this episode (interactive human skills).
Transformation of the IT guy into a human interaction machine
Relationship building , strong executive presence, 
Behavioral neuroscience engineering
Emotional roadblocks.
Enabling end-users
Segmen…

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52. From IT dumpster fires to stepping over dead bodies on the floor to…

From putting out dumpster fires to powerpoint glitter with…
Business acumen wins and a seat at the grownup table…
Dan White has made a respectable human
out of a monsterous
Lobotomized IT department 
Where people crawl out of the server room
and up f…

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51. Millennial American IT Stereotypes and Burgers in Saudi Arabia

Larry Miller – IT Consultant for larger mid-market enterprise and…
Small Business and…
Residential clients (my hero)…
working nights and weekends,
breaking all the molds we say matter for work/life balance
has a soul at the same time and
more than …

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