Guessing is not a strategy: How to build decision velocity with AI and real-time data
June 10, 2026 | Live Webinar
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Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
Techies and IT people are very happy these days, as well they should be. It isn’t job utopia, because there are still plenty of experienced IT pros out of work. For the most part, however, the job picture is nothing to complain about. This is not breaking news. It’s been this way for several months now, and I’ve written about it before.
But I’ve also been a profit of gloom. Doomsday is not on the horizon, but darker days may be ahead if you’re not on top of market realities. Human beings have a way of fooling themselves and believing that because things are good at this very moment, they will stay that way.
There is something to say for the Buddhist “living in the moment” philosophy, but it’s also very dangerous if you expect to stay on top of your game. There’s more to the Buddhist doctrine, however. It goes on to say that we are accountable for our actions until the end of our lives.
Apply that notion to your career, and you’ll start making smart decisions and logical assumptions about your future. A short while ago, I posed this question: What will you do if the economy turns sour? Anything is possible, but a likely scenario is that U.S. companies will become so backlogged with projects that they’ll have no choice but to outsource and offshore their IT operations just to meet their…
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