I was interviewing a candidate and they asked me a question I’ve reflected on long after. I was so hurried and stretched out thin at the time I can’t even recall what was asked. But I remember my response. Perhaps it’s not what should be shared in a late-stage interview, but I did it andContinueContinue reading “Giving My All To My Team”
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The Hardest Thing
Sometimes giving up projects and tasks — even ones you’re not super fond of — is the hardest thing to do. But doing that hardest thing is sometimes the best thing to you. Both for your own maturation, but also for the team. Right now I’m holding a lot of friends back by not letting go of items onContinueContinue reading “The Hardest Thing”
Climbing Up the Next Ridge
For the past while I feel like I’ve been missing that big picture view. Sort of like on a hike when you climb up a ridge you get to see the expanse, you see for miles and miles. Soon you descend into the foothills, trees, and valley floor and you forget what it looked like.ContinueContinue reading “Climbing Up the Next Ridge”
Planning, Preparedness, and Being Totally, Completely, and Utterly Ready for Any and All…
It’s just not possible. In Support I hate being wrong. I disdain not knowing or being unable to help the customer. What’s more, in leadership, I grow weary of not only not having all the answers (or the ways to find them) but sending my team to work without equipping them 110%. That’s such aContinueContinue reading “Planning, Preparedness, and Being Totally, Completely, and Utterly Ready for Any and All…”
Counsel of many
Was thinking the other day how plans frequently fail if there haven’t been advisors or counselors. To turn that phrase around: plans tend to succeed when you have input from multiple people, with multiple perspectives. First of all, I totally hold to that proverb. I believe it lends amazing value. But there’s another way toContinueContinue reading “Counsel of many”
Jeff Beaumont 