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...
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...
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...
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,...
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?...
