Sourcing Strategies and Innovation – Diversity and Inclusion Create Big and Strong Organizations 
We mostly think of diversity and inclusion issues as it relates to people and organizations.  The benefit of thinking in this dimension...
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Linda Cureton
Nov 27, 20235 min
Five Steps to Becoming a Trailblazer 
A trailblazer is a pioneer, or someone considered a first in their area of expertise.  Leaders point the way, take risks, and change the...
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Thelonious Walker
Nov 13, 20233 min
Putting a Secure IT Strategy in Place - Cloud Services, Data Center Management and Enterprise Cloud
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technology, the role of IT leaders in ensuring the security of organizational data has never been...
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Linda Cureton
Oct 31, 20232 min
Five Things That Scare a CIO
With Halloween right around the corner, some pranksters really get kicks out of trying to scare people.  Do you want to know how to scare...
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Linda Cureton
Sep 21, 20232 min
The Leadership of the Horse Holder 
We can learn a lot about leadership from householders.   They show us the importance of leading from behind.  Many associate leadership...
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Thelonious Walker
Sep 14, 20233 min
My Information Technology Ministry 
At one point, I became the Co-chair of the Federal CIO Council’s Architecture and Infrastructure Committee.  Though I was new to the gig,...
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Thelonious Walker
Aug 25, 20232 min
When Failure is an Option
I shared with a girlfriend, who happened to be a former colleague, about some lively discussions at an executive summit on how we need to...
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Linda Cureton
May 26, 20233 min
Life in IT Flatland
I’ve come to the conclusion that many of us in the field of Information Technology live in IT Flatland.  Flatland is a place, described...
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Linda Cureton
May 4, 20233 min
Women in History: Counting on Women in Mathematics 
I want to take the opportunity to talk specifically about some significant contributions from some women in mathematics and perhaps to...
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Linda Cureton
Mar 21, 20232 min
Women in History: Holding Up Half the Sky
I had the pleasure of participating in a special event – Teaching Children to be Limitless - for Women’s History Month.  We rotated...
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Linda Cureton
Mar 17, 20232 min
Be My Technology Valentine
One year, I was interviewed by a reporter writing an article about me.  She asked me why I loved technology so much.  I paused to try to...
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Linda Cureton
Feb 27, 20232 min
Leadership of the Owl
As autumn nights started to approach, the air conditioning was turned off and the windows were opened.  The smell of the fresh fall air...
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Linda Cureton
Jan 30, 20233 min
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, 20233 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, 20223 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, 20223 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, 20222 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, 20222 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, 20222 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, 20223 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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