NASA CIO Blog

May 2009
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The Goddard CIO Blog: One Year Later Jun 01, 2009 10:16:21 PM | Linda Cureton
 
One year today, I made my first blog post. Today, I want to pause and discuss my experience, my learning, and my path forward. This is a lengthy post. It will not be a sterile reflection of the efficacy of this Web 2.0 technology, but rather, this will be an expression of what this experience meant to me as a CIO, a leader, and as an individual.
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How Extraordinary Golf Leads to Extraordinary Leadership May 23, 2009 02:25:37 PM | Linda Cureton
 
We all have our purpose for playing golf just as we have our purpose in life. We confuse performance with purpose. Are we committed to looking good with the perfect drive? Or to enjoying golf? We do this in the workplace as managers and leaders. Are we committed to the purpose of the project? Or have we lost sight of the organization’s target because we are overly focusing on performance? Now certainly performance is critical, but we don’t want a successful operation and a dead patient!
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ITIL We Meet Again May 17, 2009 11:08:42 AM | Linda Cureton
 
I first met ITIL in the 1980s. This was in the good-ole-days – when programmers wrote real code; 5 nines didn’t mean 6 sigmas; and Data Centers weren’t on people’s desks. Who knew we'd meet again? These critical practices are essential to providing quality service and promoting collaboration across diverse service providers in today's learning IT organization.
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More Things My Mother Taught Me About Being a CIO Jan 26, 2010 10:31:25 AM | Linda Cureton
 
It’s appropriate as we enter Mother’s Day weekend for me to reflect that I don’t have to look back too far in the past to learn from my mother. I’ve blogged about this topic before and the calendar warrants further reflections on some more of those CIO learning moments.
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What’s IT Got to Do With It? May 02, 2009 11:19:38 PM | Linda Cureton
 
This week, my mother announced to me that she heard on Oprah what Twitter is and didn't need her CIO daughter to explain it. Well, if that isn't a wake up call for CIOs to become relevent in the advent of Web 2.0 technologies then CIO really does stand for Career Is Over!
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