Hi Pete, Let's get the mandatory reading out of the way so everyone else can fill in with their experience.
Two books; The Practice of System and Network Administration (2nd edition). (A Mentor in a book) Analytical Network and System Administration Managing Human-Computer Systems. (Rigor! Rigor! Rigor!) :-) With that said, let's hear some advice! On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Peter Grace <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello list, > > Well, I've been an IT Director for about half a year now. In this time I > have learned quite a bit more about what it takes to be a manager and the > amount of self discipline it requires to keep all of the pieces on the > chessboard moving safely. > > After 6 months, my self evaluation is I suck at being in charge of an IT > department, and by gosh I want to fix that. I am asking for your opinions > on all manners of self-help: certification ideas, books that have helped > you "grok" how a department should work properly, ways to improve process > management, things of this nature. I want to be the best I can be and I > know that a lot of the people on this list have "been there, done that" and > have lived to tell the tale. I'd love to hear yours. > > I struggle since the place where I work still has a lot of startup > mentality but they're getting to the size where we need to start making it > "enterprisey" to keep things moving smoothly. A lot of the people in the > organization feel like making things more enterprise-like means that > they'll be mired in paperwork and mucky-muck and it's tough to break that > opinion. What are your experiences? > > Thanks in advance, > > Pete > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > -- Joseph A Kern [email protected]
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