Career Growth
14 essays, 2012–2024, newest first.
- Call to Adventure My career's next chapter.
- The Five-Year Cliff Nobody tells you that you hit a career cliff every five years - here's how to overcome it.
- Beyond Time Management: Balancing Energy and Productivity Six months into my dream job, I had a nervous breakdown.I just started getting the hang of things, trying to be productive and friendly in an ocean of...
- Rim Rocked: Overcoming a Stalled Career One of my favorite shows growing up was Man vs. Wild with Bear Grylls - to this day, I still don't know why. A couple of weeks back, while discussing...
- The First 10%: Why Intentionality Beats Distraction Every Time Intentionality is the key to success. For starters, 10% of 2021 has already passed. As a collective, we constantly face so many distractions, achieving...
- Accelerate Your Career with the Talent Stack Ordinary skills that fit together will take you further than being the best in the world at one thing
- Humble. Hungry. Smart. Exceptional teams change the world. Dysfunctional teams don’t.One of my favorite movie scenes is from Apollo 13 after the crew realized they didn’t...
- Sabbatical I've regularly been posting articles - at least once per month - since 2010. This year, a few things came up that took my attention away from creating...
- DiSC I spent the first several years of my career as a software developer with an incorrect understanding of my default behavioral tendencies. I thought...
- Be the Worst When I was in college, I took a particularly challenging Probability and Statistics class - most of the subject matter was new to me and it took me all of...
- Grit Every summer before going off to college, I worked with my dad at his Powder Coating business. For those who aren't familiar with the trade, a typical day...
- Begin With the End in Mind I remember writing a code generator early on in my career to accomplish a very boring programming assignment. When finished, I was very proud of what I...
- Board Games Improve Leadership and Decision Making Skills In Inc.'s June 2013 issue there is an interesting article about how board games help hone leadership and decision making skills. I was a bit skeptical at...
- Work Yourself Out of a Job Some of the best advice that I've received in my career is that whatever job position you find yourself in, you should always be trying to work yourself...