Over my career, I’ve been fortunate to lead some sizeable teams. Large teams are like a tribe that has an established culture and traditions; one new tribe member can only change the tribe so much. The counter scenario is equally true: a newly-established small tribe is still establishing its culture and traditions with each new…
About the Series Over the last nearly three decades (I’m getting…let’s call it “mature”), I’ve had the good fortune of being able to do everything from working as a software engineer to running a team of over 2,100 people across eighteen offices around the world to founding a software-as-a-service startup that. Over those years, I’ve…
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Over the years, I’ve used a very simple and straightforward technique for assessing team members’ performance and contribution based on their skill level in their role, will to work hard on the job, and their attitude towards their colleagues and clients. In fact, these three dimensions were the basis of The 7 Categories of Coworkers. In this…
Photo by Chaz McGregor Dear 11-year-old self: For as long as I can remember, I’ve suffered an emotional weakness: I’ve always had an overwhelming sense of guilt at my inability to remove pain and suffering from the world around me. I feel bad for animals… I can’t stand being in the meat section of the grocery…
After giving a talk recently, I was inspired to capture 7 principles that are, for all intents and purposes, facts about our society today. What’s more, they’re facts we tend to forget in our day-to-day lives as we judge others and evaluate our world. ____________________ 1. The elderly aren’t a group; they are we. ____________________…
It started out very simply: like many of you reading this article, we had a couple of older laptops and iPhones that were simply idle taking up space in a cabinet. Instead of trying to sell them, our boys suggested we see if a local family in need could find value in them for their…
