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44. How Top IT Introverts Sell to Executive Management

On this show:
Leslie Cothran, Director of IT at Universal Mental Health Services
How does one man manage 1,000 end users
Cato Networks
Cloud Firewalls
Overwhelming amounts of stuff
Tickets requests made via snapchat!
Microfiche
More with less… a lot le…

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43. You didn’t get the job because you’re a woman.

“You didn’t get the job because you are a woman and no one will take you seriously.”
On this Episode Phil Howard and Diane Huff VP of IT discuss:
The IT crowd feminine archetype
Technology Leadership Advice
How to make mistakes together.
Hot to be Calcul…

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42. The Biggest Lie Bill Gates Ever Told…

Don Hammer and Phil Howard discuss

The UYK-7

The $3,000 Computer
IT guys killed drive-bys
Burning time on the Admin Side
Train end-users to be more confident
Where IT can make a difference
Sorting kernels
Staying current
#dissectingpopularitnerds

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41. This High School Student Hacked the Network

On this Episode Rolland Kornblau and Phil Howard Discuss:
The biggest part of end-user education is…
Students that are more ingenious but not smarter…
Why you should live you life in fear…
This one group of people that we are not learning from…
Y…

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40. We’re migrating to the cloud cause my boss read about it in Time magazine.

 On this episode John Walker, IT Director at H&M Bay and Phil Howard discuss,
– Migrating to the Cloud because an executive leader read about it in Time magazine
– Some developers don’t talk with you because you are so #$%ing dumb.
– Software Dev for the…

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39. Should DevOps big a big deal in your company? Are you ready?

On this episode…
Phil Howard and Justin smucker
The future targets/goals of the business mean IT Directors should do this ….
What are the business outcomes you are trying to enable?
What to do if everybody wants to stay the same
Hypervisors, VMs, thr…

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38. Does your team secretly disagree with you? Are you failing to gain your team’s buy-in?

When the team wins it’s the team and when the team fails it’s me. – Todd Allen
Phil Howard and Todd Allen discuss
Mid stream changes
Agile methodology applied into micro steps
Creating direction and gaining buy-in (up/down/laterally).
Design first or put…

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37. IT Babies and Babysitters… No thanks

On this episode..
Yorck Haase, Director of IT at R.L Schreiber and Phil Howard discuss:
How to achieve new Levels of Productivity and business results.
Setting IT expectations to avoid babysitting systems and end users.
Laser Precision
Data collection an…

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36. How backwards is your IT thinking? Process First, Systems Second, and…

How should IT talk to people?
Ryan Holland, Proven Technology Leader (no title needed) and Phil Howard discuss:
Office hours after hours
Firewalls stuck in customs
The IT success formula
Big wins means baby stepping first
How to approach key stakeholders…

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35. IT Directors either impact the business or sit back like peons.

On this episode Marcus Merchant shows how an IT director can take a business from 30% efficiency to 70%+
…and how he got a job in IT with no knowledge at all
started drinking from the firehose.
Why never implement version 1.0?
How to collect important …

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