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Leaders investing millions in AI tools while their decision-making stays the same... This conversation with Leslie and Tonya is an absolute must-watch 👇

Most organizations believe they've implemented zero trust. Most of them haven't. And not because they bought the wrong tool. Zero trust is simply not a product... It's a discipline that has to run across seven layers of security, from identity and privilege management to microsegmentation and real-time threat monitoring. Most implementations stop at two or three layers and call it done. That gap is exactly what Scott Alldridge calls the zero trust illusion, and it's the focus of our latest episode with Tonya Turrell. We get into why so many breaches start from the inside. Unapproved change, privilege creep, shadow IT, none of it is exotic. It's operational. And it's avoidable. The conversation also covers why cyber insurance claims get denied more often than leaders expect, how leadership decisions quietly shape security posture, and the two highest-leverage actions any organization should validate right now. If you're responsible for security outcomes, not just security spend, this one's worth your time 👉 https://lnkd.in/d2ZzvWSn Listen on Apple Podcast 🎧 https://lnkd.in/dsXGZ2x7 Listen on Spotify 🎧 https://lnkd.in/dx4HJmeP

You can have the right strategy, the right budget, and the right executive buy-in. And still watch the project slowly come apart. Most of the time, the root cause traces back to a talent decision made months earlier. A contractor who quietly checked out. A niche role filled with someone who looked right on paper. An internal team asked to carry more than they could sustain. Nobody flagged it. And by the time it showed up, the window to fix it cleanly had already passed. In our latest podcast episode, Tonya sat down with Clayton Dinger from Limitless Staffing to talk through how this actually plays out. Clayton works the niche end of enterprise IT staffing and has a clear view into where delivery starts to come apart, what the early signals look like, and what separates the leaders who catch it from the ones who absorb the cost later. They get into project drift, the real cost of waiting too long on external support, and why the most capable people for high-impact roles are rarely the ones actively looking. Worth an hour if this is something you're navigating right now 👉 https://lnkd.in/dbp4bYdH Listen on Apple Podcast 🎧 https://lnkd.in/dRagdjq8 Listen on Spotify 🎧 https://lnkd.in/dkyuf9EW

There’s a moment when doing everything right… stops working. Not because you’re not capable. Because the system was never designed to see you fully. I’ve felt that. Holding it all together. Delivering more. And realizing… that’s not what actually moves you forward. This conversation with Jossie Haines is honest. Real. Necessary. We talk about the work that keeps everything running but gets you nowhere. And the shift from proving yourself… to positioning yourself. Because what’s coming next isn’t about who knows the most. It’s about who sees the most. If you’ve felt that friction, you’ll feel this.

Never met an IT leader who didn't believe cloud works. That's not why migrations stall... "Not yet" is usually code for something that happened two years ago. Someone got burned, and "no" became the safest answer they could give. That's not really resistance. That's experience. The problem is that waiting has a cost too. Most teams we talk to are spending most of their time just keeping the lights on. One low-stakes move with honest metrics tends to do more than any business case. And not to prove to anyone that "cloud works"... A question that usually opens things up: "What would have to be true for you to feel okay moving this one system?" The answer is almost never about the technology.

Most teams don't outsource because they want to. They do it because something finally forced the decision. A project slipped again. A gap opened up nobody had bandwidth to cover. Good people started leaving. And suddenly the question isn't whether to bring in help. It's why it took this long. But the real issue with outsourcing isn't cost or speed. It's whether the people you bring in actually own their work, and whether your team comes out the other side still holding the knowledge. You have to protect what defines how your org runs. Let go of what's pulling your best people into work they resent doing. Knowing the difference matters more than any framework. #ITLeadership #Outsourcing #TechStrategy #ITManagement #CIO

Over half of women in tech leave the industry by mid-career. And not because they couldn't keep up... because the system kept demanding they prove themselves in ways it never asked of others. In the latest episode of our podcast, Tonya Turrell sits down with Jossie Haines, engineering leader and coach whose career spans Apple, Tile, and American Express. Together they get into exactly why that happens. The "glue work" that holds teams together but never translates into a promotion. The moment working harder stops working. The difference between ambition that grows you and achievement that quietly wears you down. And it closes on something that matters a lot right now: the leaders who will thrive in the AI era won't just be the most technical. They'll be the most human. If you lead in tech, or you're building your career inside one, this one is worth your time: https://lnkd.in/dAN3NF_V Listen on Apple Podcast 🎧 https://lnkd.in/dA5bT5qp Listen on Spotify 🎧 https://lnkd.in/dHezctZg

Few days ago, 56 thousand Stryker employees across 79 countries turned on their computers and found them blank. No ransomware. No novel exploit. Someone got into the Intune admin console and issued a remote wipe. The tool worked exactly as designed. One compromised credential set, one console, and the entire estate is gone. CISA was at 38% staffing. No federal advisory came. No coordinated response in the first 24 hours. The honest part is this: we've mostly left the controls around management planes as an afterthought. Not really out of negligence. Nobody simply wants to be the person adding friction to tools the team depends on every day. And Stryker just made that "tradeoff" very expensive to ignore. Full breakdown in the comments 👇

Most enterprise tech sales advice still assumes buyers want a pitch. They don’t. Most IT leaders have already done the homework before the first conversation ever happens. They’ve read the reviews. Talked to peers. Compared vendors. Narrowed the field. By the time a vendor shows up, the decision process is already in motion. That’s why I really enjoyed this conversation on the podcast with Lara Mayes and Leslie Bonsett from Global Consulting Group. Both of them have spent years working directly with CIOs, CTOs, and enterprise technology teams. They’ve watched how buying behavior has evolved, and they understand what actually moves a deal forward today. A few truths came through clearly in the conversation: Enterprise buyers are overwhelmed with information. Decision cycles are longer. More stakeholders are involved. And trust is harder to earn. Which means the vendors who win aren’t the ones with the best pitch. They’re the ones who show up curious. Who listen before they try to sell. Who understand the pressure IT leaders are under inside their organizations. In other words, the things people used to call “soft skills.” Turns out they’re actually power skills. In this episode we talk about how enterprise buying has changed, why the old sales playbook doesn’t work the way it used to, and what it actually takes to be seen as a trusted partner instead of just another vendor. If you sell into enterprise technology, I think you’ll find this conversation interesting.