Career
18 essays, 2010–2020, newest first.
- Interview: The One Broken Cog Podcast Pull up a comfortable chair and a calming drink and come spend a few minutes with Robert Greiner and me. I had the privilege of joining John and Brian on...
- Gratitude: An Essential Leadership and Life Skill Gratitude isn't a mood. Practiced daily, it's the cheapest operating advantage a leader has.
- Take a Break! The Trip Report Rest stays invisible until someone puts it on the record, and the leader goes first
- Thriving in Adversity When I was a kid, my dad owned a powder coating business. For those not familiar, powder coating is where you spray electrostatically charged colored...
- Alternative to Arguing Sometimes you're right, and you know it. Unfortunately, we live in a world where those around us may not know what we know. Worse than that (by an...
- Wooden Blocks I was listening to a Manager Tools podcast over the weekend and they shared a great Civil War era poem by Stephen Vincent Benet that applies very broadly...
- Growth The US economy has been growing. According to Morningstar, if you are in Healthcare, your industry enjoyed a 20% increase in 2014. Technology and Real...
- Wait I remember the first extended vacation I tried to take as a team lead. Things did not go well. I wasn't even a full day into my relaxation time before the...
- Read Fiction, Be a Better Leader One of my favorite things about the Harvard Business Review IdeaCast is the exceptionally diverse list of topics they cover each week.June 20th's IdeaCast...
- Succeeding and Not Failing If asked, I would say that I devote a great portion of my life trying to succeed at something. However, when I try to be a little more introspective, I...
- Your Project Needs a Theme Every day, you chug away on your project (software, widgets, budgets, whatever) making incremental progress towards your final goal. One day something...
- Take the Pessimist's View As my career has progressed, I have noticed that my best work comes from when I constantly step back and take a pessimist's view of the solution. Through...
- Sync to Paper Sometimes I find myself overwhelmed by the massive amount of digital tools I have at my disposal to solve a particular problem. What was originally meant...
- Thank You. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise. - Dale CarnegieRunning a team can be extremely challenging at times. Being responsible for the...
- How Successful People Manage Goals I don't particularly care for New Year's resolutions. I think they have been marginalized to the point of being a joke and they have a long history of...
- If Everything is Important, Then Nothing Is "If everything is important, then nothing is." ― Patrick LencioniIt seems like every two weeks I end up shifting my focus of self-study from one area to...
- Later Equals Never When developing software, it is far too easy to hack something together knowing full well you can do a better job and justifying your actions by saying...
- Practice Better I read a few really great articles this week that completely changed my perspective on both the amount of time and effort I spend on practicing my craft...