At a conference during the time between sessions, someone remarked that The Responsibility Process changed their life. I read the book and went through the class, and it changed my perspective as well. Personal Responsibility Responsibility is a funn...

We’ve all heard of SMART goals before. Goals that are SMART are: Specific Measurable Actionable Relevant Time-bound There are variations to those words, but this acronym exists to provide a set of heuristics or guidelines to action items. The idea...

Have you ever felt confused and depressed after realizing you aren’t going to get an offer from a company? Sometimes they tell you that you didn’t get it. Often you have to figure it out on your own. Even if you’re skilled at interviewing, you might...

For years, folks have struggled with phrases like "self-organizing" and the newer "self-managed" regarding teams. I have met plenty of leaders and managers who have tried to figure out how to create teams with these qualities and find their own place...

Imagine going to a restaurant. You walk in the door, and everything looks right. There are diners sitting at tables and booths. There are wait staff going around to tables. Everything looks right. You sit at a table, look at the menu and everyone fin...

No matter where you are in your job, you will have great ideas. How do you get them to your manager in a way that they hear it? I was once doing some prototype work for various databases that the architects and managers were considering. The field ha...

I was working with a group, and we were starting a new project. In this particular case, one group thought the project was for one set of users with a scope set. Another thought the goal was different, and yet another thought there was an other stak...

In this next article in my Six-Figure Resume series, I want to cover some myths and mistakes people make in crafting their resumes that hurt your chances or guarantee that you’ll get disqualified from a job early. The One-Page Resume Is a Dangerous M...

For the first few years of my career, I wasted a lot of my time and energy doing things the hard way. I should be honest and admit that a big part of me still does things the hardest way possible. A part of me believes that if I can succeed in unfavo...

We all love throwing around, "High-Performing," teams as something that you get when you transition to agile beliefs and practices. This high-performing team could be described many ways, and I'll try to provide a way to think about the journey a tea...