Greetings!

This new blog will contain my hopefully useful insights into management, leadership, and how to perform those things in an Information Technology setting. Its late now, so I'm not going to go into it much. The title is a key to what my current feelings are on the subject. If one is to be a leader today, in the knowledge workforce, how does that person manage? What is the purpose of managment when typically the managers haven't become the expert in the thing they're managing. Even if they're expert in the business, they rarely expert in the technolgy. And vice versa. Even when the rare bird comes along with both of those knowledge bases, how can he find the time to do both of them? How long before he burns out?

So, what I percieve as the ideal managmeent metaphor is the cornerstone. Long an analogy for many things, I choose it to illustrate how the cornerstone can enable the other stones to stand, to be where they are. The cornerstone is the unifying force, the stablizer, the enabler. Not the stongest stone, and perhaps not even the largest load-bearing stone, the cornerstone is the one stone that takes its potential energy and distributes it to others.

Thats what I try to do. :)

More soon.