Readers of this CIO Assistant’s Blog have seen a steady string of small improvements applied to the Blog lately. This time, it’s the introduction of a regular Guest Post feature. Once a month, I will invite a new guest to share his/her thoughts with you. The objective is to enlarge and enrich the view of the CIO Assistant to give you, dear readers, more choices on the subjects that are of interest to you. 

Tomorrow, I will have the pleasure to introduce to you one of my online friends, Faith Fuqua-Purvis. She is the President and Chief Solutions Architect of Synergetic Solutions LLC. We first come to know each other through discussions at a LinkedIn forum, the Organizational Change Practitioners. Faith is an active participant, frequently providing insightful comments that usually get to the crux of the matter very quickly. She also has the knack of turning someone else’s point of view into a recipe with a grain or two of humour and making it easier to grasp in the process.

Faith is a strategic thinker. She builds models and frameworks for Strategic Change, the type of transformational change that has a long-lasting impact on the business. As you will see in her guest post, her perspective is different from and yet complements well my darwinian view of organizational evolution. While my focus is pretty much on IT and its leadership, hers is more inclusive to embrace everyone who has an interest in leveraging the human capital at work. I hope that you will enjoy her post. Let me know your thought after reading.

         

There has been a stretch of 10 days since the CIO Assistant’s Blog moved to this Tao of Living website. The relatively long break between posts may raise some questions about whether or not the Blog will change its mission (of helping IT Leaders optimize, align and grow) or direction. For the faithful reader (i.e. You), the good news is No. This Blog is still dedicated to the IT Leaders, with immediate focus on the current ones. It will probably orient toward the future ones over time but there is no specific plan at the moment.

As proof of this continuity, I will publish tomorrow the third and final post on the subject of “How To Stay Relevant To Business”. You can refresh the memory by reading in advance Part 1 and Part 2.

         

The CIO Assistant’s Blog has found a new home here at the Tao of Living website. It is essentially the same blog, expanded to provide you, dear readers, access to a wider range of topics delving in a more balanced view of life (i.e. beyond the professional interests of IT Leadership and Management).

If you have enjoyed reading the CIO Assistant’s Blog so far, you will continue to have the same kind of posts. After all, it’s still the same me behind the scene. Thank you for your continued readership.

Long lives a quiet yet satisfactory life!