A Good One Leaves Us

I was sad to say goodbye recently to UC CIO Greg Jackson, who’s moved on to a wonderful position at Educause. Greg was the whole package as an IT leader: deeply experienced, a superb communicator, analytical yet empathetic, funny as all get out, and knew how to  walk the talk. He also answered emails really [...]

Posted on September 25th, 2009 by Curt Lieneck
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The High Cost of Turnover

I had a resignation come in very late in the school year. Yesterday, a candidate accepted my offer of employment. In the intervening weeks, it seemed like an inordinate amount of my time was devoted to filling this vacancy, so I went back and reviewed the process and the generated some interesting (at least to [...]

Posted on August 14th, 2009 by Curt Lieneck
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