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64. Offensive IT, Getting out of Ticket Purgatory

If you don’t want to hear our childhood stories fast forward to “Offensive IT” at 11 minutes in… otherwise marry young enough that your wife doesn’t know what a boot-disk is.

Space camp with space shuttle and mission control

What does IT childhood l…

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63. Blowing Stuff Up with C4

Joe Scott: IT Manager at BMT
End-User Lurkers
Gaming circumvented his History Teacher Career
Cyrix P1 166
Blowing stuff up with C4
Fixing Systems in the Marine Core
Hyper focused delegation
Trusting people and handing off tasks
Helpdesk Frameworks
What’s…

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62. IT Leader Robert Liebsch is Dissecting the Budget

IT Leader Robert Liebsch speaks about Dissecting the Budget
Speak the proper terms
but don’t sound cliche’
OPEX vs CAPEX
Depreciation
Selling to Executive Management
People of the Old School
Office 2016 is no more October 2020
Floods of inbound encrypted…

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61. Special Lubrication with Geoff Beaune

Special IT Lubrication…
 
ITs Not too small
 
ITs not too big
 
ITs mid-market IT
 
IT Specialist Geoff Beaune lubes the IT budget and tells the Selling to upper management story.
 
His company manufactures lubrication and was throwing money at everyth…

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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.  
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Weird IT Guy (with 800 End-Users) Kills IT in Sales & Marketing
Why i…

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