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Peter is the managing director of Longhaus and the primary voice of The Naked Chief blog. He founded Longhaus in 2006 following over a decade in international market research and publishing with Forrester Research and META Group (now Gartner). Over the last decade, and after personally participating in several thousand business and sales meetings, public and private presentations and research projects, and writing a few hundred articles, he has come to the conclusion that the profession of ICT analyst research is largely undervalued by the industry he serves. In the decade before starting Longhaus he was only ever asked to explain the research process (how he knew what he knew) once to a journalist and twice to a client. They just never asked. Since starting the company he and his team have been asked twice more in two years. Things are definitely improving, ICT analyst research in Asia Pacific is on the up, and Longhaus is somewhere amongst it all. Peter has also worked for international publishing conglomerates Pearson LLC., and Time Warner Inc., as a staff-writer and book reviewer as well as a strategy advisor to various CIOs of organisations rated within MIS magazine’s Australian Top 50 IT operations.

Tag >> dubai
May 16
2008

It has always been a matter of trust

Posted by peter.carr in sydney, META Group, melbourne, gartner, forrester, dubai

In 2006 I approached my wife with a proposition that went something like this. “I want to quit my well paying job.” When that met with silence I bravely continued. “I would like to start a company”. Still silence. “And I would like you and the kids to give me four years to screw-up.” While I wasn't entirely sure of what her reaction would be I was pretty confident that  a high level of trust existed in our relationship. But it wasn't as if we had ever sat down and measured it. So for those interested in taking a short self-assessment to find out exactly how trustworthy you are then visit Charles Green's Trust Quotient (Charles co-authored The Trusted Advisor with David Maister and Robert Galford). For those interested in what my wife said, read on...

 

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