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So, do you have what it takes to be a speed leader? Does the candidate whose resume you’re holding have what it takes? Unfortunately, identifying such leaders is not an exact science, but here are a few things to look for:

Do you Thrive in Messiness?

• Do you have an insatiable curiosity?
• Do you love to experiment (in food, reading material, entertainment, travel)?
• Do you

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Subject: Leadership Questions

• What does great performance look like to your customers?
• What do you want to achieve in the next two or three years?
• How will you measure your performance?
• What must you learn in order to reach your goals?
• What work experience do you need to help you learn what you need to achieve your goals?

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Subject: Leadership Questions

• What are the few keys to success in your unit or business?
• What is your advantage in the marketplace?
• What would great performance for your unit, your business, and yourself in the coming year look like?
• What current or future developments will change the way you do business?
• What developments are impacting your unit’s activities and the company’s?
• What do you see coming in

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Subject: Leadership Questions

• How Focused am I? How much of my time do I spend communicating and inspiring people about our mission, vision and strategic goals? How much focus do I create in my organization? How married am I/my organization to methods that have outlived their usefulness?
• Am I viewed as Authentic? Do people see and hear the real me? Do I wear a mask at work,

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Subject: Leadership Questions

In advice to boards about hiring CEOs, Warren Bennis and James O’Toole recommend that a board should interview a candidate’s superiors, peers and direct reports with questions that will drive to the heart of the candidate. Here is a list of questions they recommend. How would your colleagues answer these questions about YOU?

• Does the candidate lead consistently in a way that inspires

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Subject: Leadership Questions

1. Which people and experiences in your early life had the greatest impact on you?
2. What tools do you use to become self-aware? What is your authentic self? What are the moments when you say to yourself, this is the real me?
3. What are your most deeply held values? Where did they come from? Have your values changed significantly since your childhood? How do your values inform your

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Subject: Leadership Questions

Gallup has been researching top-performing leaders for more than 40 years. One crucial discovery has been that top performance is strongly correlated to seven main leadership activities or “demands.”

1. Visioning
   The best leaders talk often about the future and how it will be better than the present. Their forward-looking approach engages and excites their audience and elicits commitment.
• Can you articulate the long-term direction

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Subject: Leadership Questions

1. Breadth vs. depth – should a practice address all knowledge elements at a high level, or capture one or two in depth?
2. Looking back versus going forward – should a practice capture its historical knowledge or start now and capture going forward?
3. Incremental vs. big bang – should a practice plan to address its knowledge needs in stages over time, or should it make a major,

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Author: Laurence P. Chait | Source: Viewpoint: Creating a Successful Knowledge Management System | Subject: Knowledge Management Questions

Some self-evaluation is required of executive teams that want to align their IT managers and avoid conflict with the COO. It’s OK if the CIO’s role remains technical rather than strategic, but executives must set goals and measure success accordingly. Here are some pertinent questions:

1. Does your company view IT activities as key contributors to revenue growth and profitability?
2. If “yes,” does this represent a new

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Authors: Nathan Bennett, Stephen Miles | Source: Changes At C-Level | Subject: IT Questions

• What is the immediate, short-term goal of your website?
• What specific action do you want visitors to take?
• What are your specific objectives for the long term?
• Who do you want to visit your site?
• What solutions or benefits can you offer to these visitors?
• What data should your site provide to achieve your primary goal?
• What information can you provide to encourage them to act right now?
• What questions

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Author: Jay Conrad Levinson | Source: The Two Worlds of Marketing | Subjects: IT Questions, Website Questions

1. Whom am I trying to persuade?
2. What am I trying to persuade this person to do?
3. What information does this person need so he or she is persuaded to take this action?

Authors: Anthony Garcia, Joshua Hay | Source: An Outsider’s Perspective on Your Web Site | Subjects: IT Questions, Website Questions

• How often do IT projects fail to deliver what was expected?
• Are end users surveyed about the quality of the IT service and, if so, what were their responses?
• Is IT regarded as an enabler or as an inhibitor of change?
• Are sufficient IT resources, infrastructure and competencies available to meet strategic objectives?
• What has been the average overrun of IT operational budgets? How often and by

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Author: Rick Sidorowicz | Source: Performance Improvement – A Classic Checklist | Subject: IT Questions

• How does this proposed project help the organization achieve its objectives? Why should we invest in this? An IT project should either add value or reduce risk.
• Is the project’s objective measurable? If it isn’t, how will you know that the project is done and/or successful?
• Who was involved with creating the proposed solution? Did the project team involve the right people to truly create

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Author: George Spafford | Source: Learning to Ask IT the Right Questions | Subject: IT Questions

• Organizing model. Should the company adopt a centralized, decentralized or hybrid approach?
• Investment. What should the company invest in, and how much should it invest?
• Architecture. Should the company emphasize stability or flexibility? To what degree? Should applications be externally purchased or internally developed? Should there be a single, comprehensive ERP application, or multiple applications?
• Standards. Which components of technology should the organization standardize, and which

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Authors: Deepak K. Goyal, Richard M. Melnicoff, Sandy G. Shearer | Source: Is There a Smarter Way to Approach IT Governance? | Subject: IT Questions

Questions to Ask to Uncover IT Issues

• How often do IT projects fail to deliver what they promised?
• Are end users satisfied with the quality of the IT service?
• Are sufficient IT resources, infrastructure and competencies available to meet strategic objectives?
• What has been the average overrun of IT operational budgets? How often and how much do IT projects go over budget?
• How much of the IT effort

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Source: Board Briefing on IT Governance, 2nd Edition | Subject: IT Questions

The following is a series of questions you should ask partners before you link your systems, whether through supply-chains, customer-relationship management, or as a member of an exchange. The sensitivity level of the data to be shared will dictate the appropriate depth of inquiry:

• Are the devices–servers, routers, and firewalls–your company will use to collaborate dedicated to our company, or are they also used

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Author: James Kalyvas | Source: Judicious Partnering | Subject: IT Questions

• Is it growing faster than revenues?
• Does it increasingly support older applications that require continual work to adapt to business changes rather than applications that accommodate business changes faster and at lower cost?
• Is there a mechanism to determine how IT spending aligns with the business’s value-adding processes?
• Is there conflict over IT budgets absent an analytical business case-bound decision process?
• Is there a process in place

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Authors: Gary A. Curtis, Richard M. Melnicoff, Tor Mesoy | Source: Value Discovery: A Better Way to Prioritize IT Investments | Subject: IT Questions

• What is our purpose? Does our organization have a clear mission or charter, and is it being followed?
• Who are our customers? Segmentation analysis is vital in distinguishing, for example, customers who use IT systems outside the office most of the time from customers who don’t travel at all.
• What do different customers want and need to be more effective in their jobs? How can

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Author: George Tillmann | Source: In Search of Overhead Heroes | Subject: IT Questions

Companies can ask these basic questions to determine whether IT capabilities are contributing to–or hindering–their growth.

1. Is your total IT spending below or above the average for your industry?
   (Clearly below, 1 point; average, 2 points; clearly above, 3 points)
2. What share of your IT budget is spent on new capabilities?
   (0-10%, 1 point; 11-35%, 3 points; above 35%, 4 points)
3. Who decides the size

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Subject: IT Questions

• Have the firm’s competitors invested in m-business technology? If so, where and how?
• Have companies in complementary industries invested in m-business technology? If so, where and how?
• How large or significant are m-business opportunities and threats in the firm’s arena?
• To what extent does mobile technology support or threaten the firm’s existing business model?
• What degree of business transformation is required to implement a wireless solution within

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Authors: David Reibstein, Tony O’Driscoll, Venkatesh Shankar | Source: Rational Exuberance: The Wireless Industry’s Killer “B” | Subject: IT Questions