I had some followon thoughts to my last post. I wanted to tie this back from just being a “fun motivational observation” to something more actionable for business leaders. So let’s say you’re in this position, where your portfolio is a plethora of projects or projects, each just a single grain of sand but the […]
I just saw this question posted on Reddit, “What makes a good senior developer? Specifically in terms of their soft skills.” I started thinking about what my answer would be, if I were asked this question. (Of course, this assumes I’m a good senior developer, but let’s assume for a moment I am. Bear with […]
So most people I know at work have the usual, “I’m really busy!” mantra. And I get it. I am too. We all are. But one thing I’ve learned fairly recently is that my busyness stress is sometimes misguided. Let me explain. I have tasks that are directly assigned to me, in terms of documents […]
As of this morning, I have 165 published blog posts. But what you, the reader, don’t see is how many I have that I have NOT published. I have dozens of half-finished articles written, all of them unpublished for a variety of reasons. Maybe I don’t feel like the article is presenting anything of real […]
Before I chose to pursue a career in technology I came very, very close to pursuing a career in music. I was pretty good in my younger years. I was semi-professional and learning a lot about the industry. One thing I learned was this: you might know about the legacy greats, for example Hendrix, Santana, […]
There’s a personality trait I’ve seen with high-quality leaders, a soft skill if you will. I’m not really sure what it is called, but I heard a person one time refer to it as “bandwidth”. But that’s not quite right. Let me try and explain it. As a senior business leader, you might have dozens […]
In my role I spend a huge amount of time on peer reviews and design reviews. Recently I had the privilege of being able to do design reviews for some interns who are here for summer internship. It was a ton of fun because here are people with fresh new ideas and fresh new perspectives, […]
Lately, I find myself saying a specific phrase more and more often. If we are deciding whether to take on a new project or start a complex effort, it always seems to come back to this: “Yes, if we can find the right person to do it.” I’m starting to believe more and more that […]
One interesting thing about being a leader is dealing with different types of conflicts. I’ve talked a lot about when there are various aspects or different goals that directly contradict each other. How do you deal with that healthy tension between different competing priorities? The reality is that we all have our personal goals. But […]
You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time. John Lydgate and/or Abraham Lincoln Here is one of the hardest lessons to learn and manage as a leader and manager. […]
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