Jim Anderson

Every time we are asked to give a speech, we feel a sense of nervous energy flow through our body....

So just exactly what is innovation? It turns out that innovation is doing something new. It can be a new method, a new idea, or even a new product....

This audiobook has been written with one goal in mind - to show you how you can make your product management career a success....

As long as you are taking the time to create and practice a speech, you sure want the speech to make an impact on your audience....

Who was it that said "It takes a village…"? They may not have been talking about being a product manager, but they might as well have been. Life has become so complex that product managers can no longer make their product a success just by their own efforts....

Any manager is only as good as his or her team. I'm pretty sure that we've all heard this before. However, that leaves us in a bit of a bind - more often than not we are just handed a team and told the make the most of them....

One of my negotiating mentors told me that most negotiations are over even before they start. When I asked her what she meant, she explained that the side that prepares the best for a negotiation is the one that will probably walk away with the best deal....

CIOs need to be able to communicate their thoughts with the rest of their department and the company in order to maintain credibility as a thought-leader. Effective communication is a set of skills that every CIO needs to develop. Learn how....

Every time we give a speech, we all want the same thing to happen: We want to change the world. However, in order to do that, we are going to have to find ways to connect with our audience. The challenge we are facing is that it turns out this is not an easy thing to do....

All negotiations have to come to a close. When your next negotiation reaches this stage, you want to make sure that you are going to be able to walk away with the best deal possible....

Every speech has to start out well and this is a great opportunity to do some bragging about yourself to your audience. Al Gore has some tips for us....

Leadership is one of those things that we all think that we know what it is, but we are hard pressed to describe it to someone if they ask us....

As an IT manager, one of your most valuable possessions is your career....

It turns out that most negotiations are over even before they begin....

As a negotiator, it's going to be your job to take a look at where things stand in the negotiation and then package up the agreements so that they can be included in the final deal....

Standing up in front of a group of people and giving a speech is not an easy thing to do for any of us....

When we sit down to negotiate, we are really entering into a very specialized conversation with the other side of the table....

The first step in creating a speech that will allow you to make your point is to determine how best to organize it....

At the heart of being a CIO is the responsibility to manage an entire department of technical professionals....

It's always been known that the job of being CIO is a tough job. One of the reasons that this job is so hard to do well is because we stand on shifting ground....