All about "The Sixth Sense of Leadership". A leader needs that Sixth Sense to help their team succeed. So just how do you tap into and hone that sense?
A successful leader needs to offer direction and vision that goes beyond what is said and what is needed among the team. A leader must know a team’s wants and needs before they do. He or she must know when to prod, when to coax and when to do nothing at all. A leader needs that Sixth Sense to help their team succeed. So just how do you tap into and hone that sense?
Our plan at Oxfam now is to have a significant amount of our storage devolved off site and through a fully scalable solution. In the same way our website is now scaled to demand profiles on a cloud solution, I want our storage to have the same.
We rely too much on in-house capability, and it’s a challenge not only to maintain skills but also to the physical infrastructure. Our main data center is coming to the end of its life, so we now have an opportunity. The challenge I’ve given our team is to get us a solution that has flexibility, is easy to manage and keeps the finance director smiling.
Persuading the business to invest in storage that is just sitting there until it is needed is not a popular strategy nowadays, but this incident had a major impact on our office, and it’s clear that if we had the ability to scale up the extra storage required quickly, we could have avoided the outage.
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- Frank Wander, Author, Former CIO, People Productive, LLC (Formerly The IT Excellence Institute)
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