Mastering Commitment, Trust, and Other Leadership Topics
As a technical lead, a manager, a director, and a founder, I have interviewed and hired many people. I have made excellent hires, acceptable hires, and bad hires. Over the years I have organically built methods to help me validate the skill sets of people that I’m interviewing. I’ve also invested in my own learning around body […]
I’ve been reading Rich Dad’s book series on and off now for a year or two. Today I just finished “The Cashflow Quadrant” and decided to have my first go at the “Cashflow 101” board game also produced by Robert Kiyosaki’s company. Am I really a millionaire? No. However tonight, in “monopoly money” I did become one. This story […]
It’s so easy to blame your manager or management staff when things are going wrong. But if you subscribe to the belief that people are honestly trying to do a good job and that generally, they are capable of doing so, you must then ask, “What can cause a team with good management to go bad?” When […]
I was recently asked to write an essay on “What is the most inventive or innovative thing you’ve done?” Here’s my 1000 word or less narrative below. I had fun writing it and thought to share. What is YOUR story of innovation? Yesterday morning I awoke from a peculiar dream. I was reading my son one […]
Three’s Company was an extremely successful sitcom that ran for seven years from the late 70’s into the early 80’s catapulting John Ritter, Suzanne Summers, and Joyce DeWitt among others to super stardom. One of its signature story techniques was to have one of the trio overhear one of the others saying something via eavesdropping behind a […]
Asher and I were taking a quick bike ride in the drizzly rain this evening before the big hurricane is to come in, leaving us stuck in the house all weekend. We saw a really ominous set of dark, purple clouds in the distance, and I said, “Those are what the hurricane will look like tomorrow, […]
“Mastering Commitment for Software Development Teams” started out as a collection of notes I created while driving to and from work on a long commute. I was working at a large gaming company at the time and saw many things I could help with, in teaching and understanding commitment for teams. Almost every day for […]
Brian Tracy: Speak to Win – 5 Stars I admit this book was a bit of an indulgence for me. Something just for fun. I generally read books around leadership and solving significant problems in organizations. However, a friend recently reminded me of the value in organizations like Toastmasters. Public speaking is a bit of […]
The Highs, Lows, and Lessons Learned of a Shark Tank Startup Follow the Founders of TROBO on their biggest Entrepreneurial Journey to date. Learn about the life of an Entrepreneur as you get a behind-the-scenes look at this honest book about one of the most interesting toy startups to launch this decade. Below are the […]