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A collection of 64 issues

Media Query Source: Part 57 - CIO (US digital magazine); Book recommendations from CIOs and other tech leaders

* CIO (US digital magazine) * Book recommendations from CIOs and other tech leaders * "The Ideal Executive", by Ichak Adizes * Every executive has a unique, but not "ideal", management style The query responses I provided to CIO on August 19, 2025: CIO: I am updating my popular list

Community Comment: Part 42 - Positive, negative & "realistic" company culture

* For a long time, I valued being a realist rather than a pessimist or optimist * However, I've long discovered something * The world is largely negative, so being a realist means largely being negative * Making the choice to be positive is the only true alternative path The comments I

Community Comment: Part 41 - Always do the right thing, even when nobody's watching

* Management is doing the things right * Leadership is doing the right thing * This Peter Drucker quote is about the nature of one's actions * Always do the right thing, even when nobody's watching The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread. Former Senior Advisor

New Book Review: "Leading the Leaders"

New book review for Leading the Leaders: How to Enrich Your Style of Management and Handle People Whose Style Is Different From Yours, by Ichak Kalderon Adizes PhD, Adizes Institute, 2004: This book is the third in a three-part series on "management" by Adizes, the first two being

New Book Review: "The Ideal Executive"

New book review for The Ideal Executive: Why You Cannot Be One and What To Do About It, by Ichak Kalderon Adizes PhD, Adizes Institute, 2004: Without question, this book is the best on the topic of "management" I've ever read in my entire career. The

Community Comment: Part 28 - Technical debt is actually a subset of organizational debt

* Not all technical debt is the same * Discussion with purported CTOs * Technical debt is subset of organizational debt * Business + technology = "our business" The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread. Fractional CTO and "Engineering Management Expert": "Technical debt? Is that a joke?

New Book Review: "The Threshold"

New book review for The Threshold: Leading in the Age of AI, by Nick Chatrath, Diversion Books, 2023: Copy provided by Amazon. In the introductory pages of this book, Chatrath states that "this book functions as a first foray into exploring what good leadership looks like in the present

Community Post: Part 2 - Without "conflict", there's no "colleague"

* "Colleague", "co-worker" & "teammate" * Surprising word origin of "colleague" * Root word means "to arrive together" * Without "conflict", there's no "colleague" A well-received community post I recently made: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/erikgfesser_career-wordorigin-respect-activity-6998107676408770560-dHt_

New Book Review: "Hero on a Mission"

New book review for Hero on a MIssion: A Path to a Meaningful Life, by Donald Miller, HarperCollins Leadership, 2022: Copy provided by Amazon. Just after I had first started reading through this book, someone commented to me that they had also started reading another book, entitled "Man'

Media Query Source: Part 36 Connecticut Innovations (US state venture capital newsletter)My recommended book for entrepreneurs"The Lean Startup"All bu

The responses I provided to a media outlet on February 20, 2022: Media: Best business books for leaders. Media: Entrepreneurs are short on time. If you could recommend one business book that should be on every entrepreneur's must-read list, what would it be and why do you recommend