The Crosswalk Gesture Insight
As a driver, I get provoked by people waving me to stop as they walk the crosswalk, like I don’t see them. Then I realized, I use the exact same hand gesture to thank people for stopping for me at the crosswalk. 😂
Quick Reads (Under 5 Minutes)
Short-form insights you can read in under 5 minutes.
Embracing Middle Age for Career Growth
Leveraging life experience and the gifts of middle age to direct my career and make a contribution #CareerTransition #PersonalGrowth #Leadership
Reframing My Career with Crystalized Intelligence
How the concept of “crystalized intelligence” is helping me reframe my career #careertransition #personalgrowth #leadership
Avoiding Sprint Meeting Dread
Your team dreads the end of each sprint and the day of unending meetings. This is relatively easy to avoid. #agile #scrum #sprintplanning
Evolving Management Practices
“(C)ompanies are moving away from traditional command-and-control practices and toward something very different: a model in which managers give support and guidance rather than instructions, and employees learn how to adapt to constantly changing environments in ways that unleash fresh energy, innovation, and commitment. The role of the manager, in short, is becoming that of a coach.
Balancing Pragmatism and Idealism
I aspire to be a pragmatic idealist. Pragmatists make things. Idealists make things better.
Four Key Insights on Writing
Yes, another list of 4 things. But that’s how the writing played out on this one.
Embracing Non-Hierarchical Leadership
With our new CEO going on leave, our partners proposed the crazy kind of non hierarchical experiment I love. Why don’t we (including me) report to each other in a Round Robin. Everyone’s accountable to someone and no one’s the boss. Bring it on!
Building Thought Leadership in LLMs
Conversations about using LLMs and building thought leadership (with overlaps), SPIN selling, lead gen, and evolving an industry vertical. All in North Carolina sunshine with a cooling breeze and among people I aspire to know as friends. Not shabby @MarkRickmeier and @claudiarichman #Competition #collaboration
Embracing Setbacks for Growth
How a lifetime of experiences is helping me accept and move forward from a career setback. #career #setbacks #resilience #leadership
Enhancing Business Agility
Four actions that make your business more agile, temper false exuberance in good times, and reduce the human cost of responding in down times #BusinessStrategy, #CashManagement, #ProfitManagement, #EmployeeEngagement
From Setbacks to Acceptance
A journey through career setback towards acceptance. With roadkill, REM, rivers, and cows. #career #setbacks #resilience #leadership