Career
21 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...
- Focus on Developing Your Strengths, Not Your Weaknesses In today's episode we discuss why investing in your strengths is way better than focusing on your weaknesses for long term career success, and the one...
- Becoming the Ideal Team Player Today's episode is a recording of a presentation I gave on Becoming an Ideal Team Player at our recent new hire onboarding week. The Ideal Team Player...
- Gratitude: An Essential Leadership and Life Skill Today, we discuss gratitude as a key life and leadership skill that can accelerate your growth and enhance your wellbeing. We talk about the role...
- 3 Practical Tips to Level Up Your Virtual Onboarding Experience Today we give three quick and practical tips for how to level-up your onboarding experience when starting a new job in a virtual world. Whether you are a...
- Take a Break! The Trip Report In today's episode, Charles, Igor, and I continue the discussion on taking intentional downtime to increase our physical, mental, and relationship...
- 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...