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Dennis Conley

Mr. Conley is a managing partner with Transition Partners, a national management consultancy headquartered in Reston, Virginia.  He is a senior business and information technology executive and transformation leader with over 20 years of broad corporate and consulting experience.  His extensive background and experience covers such areas as mergers and acquisitions, outsourcing, business development, technology management, organization development, business and strategic planning, and leadership training.  Over his career, Mr. Conley has led the merger and acquisition activities for many customers. Most recently, he provided strategic advice and led the integration activities for the acquisition of a $1 billion financial services firm.

He has led over 20 business process and information technology sourcing transactions valued at over $5 billion.  He has also served as an interim-CIO, providing assistance to firms during periods of transition.  Prior to Transition Partners, Mr. Conley worked for a major systems integrator as CIO and Vice President responsible for over $100 Million in annual revenue.  He is a graduate of the University of Maryland.

 

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Are Business Schools Clueless or Evil?

by Gianpiero Petriglieri

The last decade has been a one of soul-searching for business schools worldwide. Since the collapse of Enron, through the financial crisis, to the insider trading and LIBOR scandals, the question just keeps recurring: How did those institutions of higher learning, whose claim is to develop business leaders, influence the conduct of leaders who let so many people down? (more…)

Don’t Get Stuck as Someone Else’s Second-in-Command

By John Beeson

Every senior executive would love to have an Allan Taylor on his or her team. And that was the nub of Allan’s problem. For a number of years, Allan has reported to a highly visionary manager, and they made a great team. Allan has ensured consistent execution of his boss’s strategic initiatives — and is quickly falling into what I call the “first lieutenant syndrome.” (more…)

Director, Service Delivery – Database

Role and Responsibilities: The Service Delivery Director – Database is responsible for global database administration and operations, including the configuration, operations, support, and optimization of all customer delivery databases.

Direct responsibility for global database operations, ensures SLA’s, financial targets, and management objectives are consistently met or exceeded. (more…)

The dumbest interview questions of 2012

Written by Anne Fisher

If some of the things you’ve been asked in job interviews lately have struck you as kind of peculiar, cheer up. It’s not you, it’s them.

FORTUNE — “Are you a nerd?” “Can you dance?” “If you were a doughnut, what kind would you be?” When talent management consultants Development Dimensions International quizzed more than 2,000 newly hired employees about strange questions they had fielded in job interviews, the researchers got an earful. Some hiring managers’ queries are not just odd, they’re banned by law. See if you can spot the illegal questions in the following list. (Answers are at the bottom.) (more…)