Holding On In the Face of Doom and Gloom
At the end of a very rough week, I got a note from someone who used to work with me. She sent me the following note : “How do you keep...
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Linda Cureton
- Jan 3
- 3 min
Transparency and Naked Leadership
There is much discussion about government transparency, especially regarding tools such as blogs, Twitter, and various social networking...
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Linda Cureton
- Nov 28, 2022
- 3 min
Coping with Reduced Resources: Lessons from a Thief
I remember running into a colleague whom I hadn’t seen for a while. He had taken a new position, so I asked him how it was...
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Linda Cureton
- Nov 15, 2022
- 3 min
Leadership Versus Management
I threw the concept out at an All Hands Meeting about the differences between leadership and management. I got this strange quizzical...
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Linda Cureton
- Oct 24, 2022
- 2 min
Information Technology: Trick or Treat?
There’s always lots of discussion about populations as they experience the migration from an agrarian, through industrial, and to...
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Linda Cureton
- Oct 12, 2022
- 2 min
Five Things a CIO Hates About Information Technology
Once on a great visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center, I got my first chance to see pieces of history from our nation’s space...
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Linda Cureton
- Oct 7, 2022
- 2 min
Breakthrough Leadership
Turning corners and climbing hills requires Breakthrough Leadership. It gives us the ability to have a positive expectation for what has...
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Linda Cureton
- Sep 30, 2022
- 3 min
The Summit
I have always loved mountains. Not that there are many in Washington, DC. But I do remember learning in Greek mythology of Atlas, whose...
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Linda Cureton
- Sep 12, 2022
- 2 min
The Bossy CIO
John C. Maxwell describes in The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader the value of Servanthood. He notes that in the service industry,...
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Linda Cureton
- Sep 1, 2022
- 2 min
Women and Technology Leadership
As Muse aspires to encourage young women’s interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, I reflected on Sydney, a young...
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Linda Cureton
- Aug 23, 2022
- 3 min
Freckles and Fruit Trees: Things My Mother Taught Me About Being a CIO
I was reading an email that a friend sent to me. He told me of an amazing tale of his grandfather and his diminutive pony named...
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Linda Cureton
- Aug 2, 2022
- 1 min
Hail Them Uhura: The Magic of Nichelle Nichols
I would like to pause and hail the magic art of actress Nichelle Nichols who passed away on July 30, 2022. Ms. Nichols played the...
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Linda Cureton
- Jul 26, 2022
- 2 min
The Betting CIO
By some strange confluence in the universe, I found myself in a casino for two consecutive weekends. I played Texas Hold ‘Em and wagered...
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Linda Cureton
- Jun 29, 2022
- 3 min
How Extraordinary Golf Leads to Extraordinary Leadership
Years ago, I had to give a talk at the Society for Information Management Regional Leadership Forum. Someone asked me what I did in my...
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Linda Cureton
- May 9, 2022
- 2 min
Being Stung By Leading Organizational Change
This blog is inspired by a book of poems and drawings called Falling Up by Shel Silverstein. Here it is: Three Stings George got stung...
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Linda Cureton
- Apr 25, 2022
- 2 min
The Aligned CIO
In the transformation of IT, we throw around what is now getting to be trite IT jargon … “The CIO must be aligned to the business.” But...
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Linda Cureton
- Apr 25, 2022
- 2 min
The Transparent CIO
Years ago, when I was a CIO, I would have conversations with folks about transparency in government leadership. It seemed this was one of...
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