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Crisis Survival Kit: 10 IT Management Mistakes You Can't MakeCrisis Survival Kit: 10 IT Management Mistakes You Can't Make
Right now every dime counts, but there's more to keeping your business thriving than just cutting expenses. Effective, day-to-day management is crucial to keeping your business operations flowing and that's particularly true with IT. Watch out for these 10 pitfalls.
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Right now every dime counts, but there's more to keeping your business thriving than just cutting expenses. Effective, day-to-day management is crucial to keeping your business operations flowing and that's particularly true with IT. Watch out for these 10 pitfalls.In his work as executive coach and CIO of HigherHill, Joey Smith works with IT managers regularly. That proximity has allowed him to observe, up close and personal, the mistakes that many IT managers make. As he points out, sometimes these errors cost the IT manager their job, but in today's business climate, it these gaffes could cost your business. Here's Smith's Top 10 IT Management Mistakes (click thru to see his recommendations for how to avoid them).
Focusing on technology and not the business
Thinking "out of sight is out of mind"
Thinking that your team has it covered
Not creating a partnership with business management
Burning yourself out
Not testing your backup solution
Not asking for help
Not devoting time to personal development
Not finding a mentor or coach
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