By Niel Nickolaisen provided by the CIO Leadership Network.
Last week, I had a fascinating conversation with the vice president of software development for a large technology company. The focus of our discussion was good and bad leadership styles.
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By Arthur Lessard and provided by the CIO Leadership Network.
In my last column we were drifting in our holiday bliss, looking forward 25 years to how we will protect ourselves in a digital world. We have a world in which we and our proxies must have some strong, and preferably standardized, way of authenticating ourselves for everything from purchases to work. We need to bridge the gap between the heavy authentication security vendors will want and the transparency that users will need.
So how does it happen?
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By Arthur Lessard and provided by the CIO Leadership Network.
It’s 7:30am on Friday morning. Your PDA wakes you with the latest Bach/Mozart/U2 synth medley it bought for you from the classics server off the web overnight; you’re fairly pleased with the purchase, since you didn’t even know the synthers were playing with that arrangement again. The “housething” system turns up the wall screen and flips on your favorite news channel. (more…)
Dr. Bernard A. Harris, Jr. MD, President and CEO, Vesalius Ventures, Inc. is a retired NASA space shuttle astronaut who uses his experiences as as astronaut and as an African American growing up as an during the civil rights movement to discuss five missions for leaders. In this presentation courtesy of the CIO Leadership Network, Harris details five missions for leaders with references to Star Trek, Apollo 13, his space walk and other experiences: