Career
Accelerate Your Career with the Talent Stack
> The idea of a talent stack is that you can combine ordinary skills until you have enough of the right kind to be extraordinary. You don’t have to be the best in the world at any one thing. All you need to succeed is to be good at
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 wellbeing during times of crisis. We also discuss the idea of creating a Trip Report to share with our team when we return. The Trip Report was
Take a Break!
In our first ever episode recorded as a group, Charles, Igor, and I discuss the importance of taking a break. We talk about the tricks our brain plays on us as we think what we are doing in this moment is too important to put down and some of the
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 have enough oxygen to make it home. The team back at mission control rallied around a clear common cause - keeping humans alive -
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 powder onto metal and bake it in a large 450-degree oven that is about the size of a kitchen. During the 30 minutes of baking,
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 order of magnitude), others around us may intellectually know they are wrong - or you are right - and fight
Wooden Blocks
I was listening to a Manager Tools [https://www.manager-tools.com/] podcast over the weekend and they shared a great Civil War era poem by Stephen Vincent Benet [https://gist.github.com/robertgreiner/8eb5066d1996cd01adf5] that applies very broadly to project management and leadership. In fact, they list it as their
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 because I was a programmer and loved being a programmer, that must mean I'm introverted - I mean, aren't we all? I
Maybe You Shouldn’t Schedule That Meeting
I read an interesting article on HBR last week outlining a framework for deciding whether or not to schedule a meeting [https://hbr.org/2015/03/do-you-really-need-to-hold-that-meeting]. The quality of articles like this tend to vary anywhere between exceptionally helpful to common sense to a complete waste of time. The
Growth
The US economy has been growing. According to Morningstar [http://news.morningstar.com/stockReturns/CapWtdSectorReturns.html], if you are in Healthcare, your industry enjoyed a 20% increase in 2014. Technology and Real Estate grew over 17% and Financial Services grew over 10% in the same period. These are some great