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The O'Keefe Consulting Group: Your competition isn't what you think

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The O'Keefe Consulting Group. John G. O'Keefe. Buffalo NY. Leadership, Alignment, Service, Consulting. December 22, 2008. Your competition isn't what you think. If you've ever watched a teenager doing homework, you probably know this already. The scary part is that we're more like them than we might like to think. Multitasking has taken on a whole new meaning in the world of iPods and text messaging. You have competition beyond your competition. Nearly six out of 10 respondents to a GfK Roper. Workshop w...

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The O'Keefe Consulting Group: The Case for Use Cases

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The O'Keefe Consulting Group. John G. O'Keefe. Buffalo NY. Leadership, Alignment, Service, Consulting. July 17, 2009. The Case for Use Cases. Reliability, performance, etc. Too often, I’ve seen the technologists go off and build something majestic – a real work of art – that becomes totally useless to our customer because it is too complex. The term is “over-engineered,” and that usually means that we’ve managed to make a really cool thing unusable. So, this “requirements definition” portion ...Is an Eng...

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The O'Keefe Consulting Group: February 2012

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The O'Keefe Consulting Group. John G. O'Keefe. Buffalo NY. Leadership, Alignment, Service, Consulting. February 18, 2012. It’s been a really long time since I’ve written here. Busy, I guess. Isn’t that how we all are? Free time is hard to find, and what we have, we give to Facebook. I won’t repeat all the research statistics. Here, but wow, this is getting crazy. Facebook’s IPO, scheduled for spring, should raise ten BILLION dollars. So what does this mean for us as a society? I like being connected....

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The O'Keefe Consulting Group: John as The Six Million Dollar Man

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The O'Keefe Consulting Group. John G. O'Keefe. Buffalo NY. Leadership, Alignment, Service, Consulting. July 20, 2010. John as The Six Million Dollar Man. Steve Austin, astronaut, had it all. Then, a horrific accident. His injuries were grave. But “we can rebuild him; we have the technology.” Thus, the six million dollar man was salvaged, as was Lee Major’s career. In the past eighteen months, I’ve had a torn rotator cuff repaired, a quadruple heart bypass, and just nine weeks ago, a hip resurfacing.

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The O'Keefe Consulting Group: February 2009

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The O'Keefe Consulting Group. John G. O'Keefe. Buffalo NY. Leadership, Alignment, Service, Consulting. February 14, 2009. Do You Value Anonymity? I've always had the seemingly unpopular belief that, at least in the business world, anonymity is synonymous with secrecy. And it always seemed to me that secrecy among team members is a bad thing. Then why does HR seem to be all for an anonymous 360-degree feedback process? Conversations from which I learn the most about myself and my approach to leadership.

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The O'Keefe Consulting Group: I Read You Loud and Muddled

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The O'Keefe Consulting Group. John G. O'Keefe. Buffalo NY. Leadership, Alignment, Service, Consulting. March 18, 2009. I Read You Loud and Muddled. 8220;What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate. 8221; That phrase was spoken by the prison captain (warden). To prisoner Luke in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke. Blanchard describes the relationship of the development level of the staff to the appropriate matching style of the leader. I think that excellent communication skills, including both speaking and...

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The O'Keefe Consulting Group: Do You Value Anonymity?

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The O'Keefe Consulting Group. John G. O'Keefe. Buffalo NY. Leadership, Alignment, Service, Consulting. February 14, 2009. Do You Value Anonymity? I've always had the seemingly unpopular belief that, at least in the business world, anonymity is synonymous with secrecy. And it always seemed to me that secrecy among team members is a bad thing. Then why does HR seem to be all for an anonymous 360-degree feedback process? Conversations from which I learn the most about myself and my approach to leadership.

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The O'Keefe Consulting Group: Can you develop leadership?

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The O'Keefe Consulting Group. John G. O'Keefe. Buffalo NY. Leadership, Alignment, Service, Consulting. January 30, 2009. Can you develop leadership? Leadership skills. What does that make you think of? Last Monday, Mitch Allegre. Told a group of about forty professionals about the " Ecology of Leadership. We were gathered at the Leadership In Action. But wait. there's someone on the other side of the net now! They're hitting a ball at me! I didn't practice this! What do I do? Is a group started for this ...

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The O'Keefe Consulting Group: January 2010

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The O'Keefe Consulting Group. John G. O'Keefe. Buffalo NY. Leadership, Alignment, Service, Consulting. January 13, 2010. The Need for the Governator. The word governance in business is one of those terms that is so ubiquitous it has become almost meaningless. It can be applied in many ways, starting with simple process documentation to an iron-clad, locked-down model of authority for all things process-related. It's great, but this isn't what we wanted" the business person says. For many IT departments, ...