Inspiring the World with Innovation
One of the struggles a developer faces when moving up the ladder is how to keep their technical skills. If they are used to being a high-performing, individual contributor, and a technical go-to resource, this is especially challenging. Why? Because the job is different, now. Be the Oil and the Glue It’s no longer about …
“Eight hours work, eight hours sleep, eight hours play, make just and healthy day.” – King Alfred the Great One of the most important lessons at Microsoft was learning the value of a 40 hour work week. I’ve been on time, on budget for 10 years on projects ranging from grass-roots or “best efforts” to …
“When it’s time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.” — Henry David Thoreau Learn the 7 Habits of Highly Motivated People and you can continuously breathe new life into everything you do. I’ve seen too many people struggling with their motivation, or lose their mojo and wonder how to find …
“The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.” – Dennis Waitley One of the ways I set better goals and achieve them is by …
I’ve had a unique privilege of leading high-performance distributed teams for more than ten years. I was lucky to be on a team in an organization whose driving philosophy was “leverage the best talent in the world, from around the world.” By opening up the opportunity to distributed teams early on, we got a lot …
