Tuesday, May 18, 2010

HTC Incredible

I ordered my HTC Incredible last week Monday afternoon. But unfortunately I haven't been able to find out if it's been shipped or when it will ship.

Thanks Verizon.

Friday, May 7, 2010

UPDATE:Transition to new role

So I started my new role about 3 weeks ago, and so far so good. I'm already getting exposure to the regular issues of the department like IT asset management, vulnerability and audit reporting, working with/pestering PMs on audit issue remediation.

 I'm also working through my transition plan. I did that after reading the First 90 Days. The book talks about how to be successful in any sort of new role.

A few books that I'm reading or in the process of reading that I have found to be interesting/helpful are:
  • The First 90 Days - Watkins, Harvard Business Press
  • The 7C's of Consulting- Mick Cope (e-book available on Safari/O'Reilly)
  • Managing the Unexpected, Weick, Sutcliffe, Jossey-Bass, part of the University of Michigan Business School Series
  • several Harvard Business Review readings such as
    Reclaim Your job-Ghosal and Bruch
    Managing your Boss -Gabarro and Kotter
    Managing One's Self-Drucker
Also it looks like I'm going to be taking the CISSP and the CISA by the end of the year. So I'm going to have a very, very busy year.

Monday, May 3, 2010