Sticking the Landing is what gymnasts do when they perform a complicated trick and land perfectly (preferably without breaking an ankle). Everything up to that point is evaluated but what matters is ” Can they Stick the Landing?” Can they finish it with a flawless ending. And you know when the gymnast has stuck it because their smile lights up the stadium – it’s that good. If you want the higher score, if you want…
Queue up your favourite movie of the down and out hero/heroine who is trying to get it together and we’ll all cheer for their comeback story. We all love a comeback story because the perception is that the loser now wins (even though they were never a loser to begin with, but I digress). The only message to take from these movies, is that there is always time for a comeback. Yes, yours will not…
We all have “That” meeting. The one we dread. The one we dont’ want to attend. The one we already know what is going to be said, how people will respond, and how it will end. What if YOU could change that meeting? What if YOU could make it better? What if YOU knew what could be done to make it better? As an attendee of any meeting you always have two rights. Make it…
Not the company merge, but the CODE merge. Minor CODE merges aren’t a problem, but the big ones, the ones we have drifted so far apart on for too long, that we have been afraid to merge back in because “it’s not going to be run anytime soon” – those merges, those are the ones that strike fear into a developer’s heart. The first question a developer will ask is – “how long”? And if…
Every day, you’re in a box. You’re on who knows how many calls per day that are in a box. Whether you’re on video or whether it’s your name in a black box. It’s a box. And that is what you have, at your disposal to get people wanting to hear what you have to say, in a sea of more and more boxes. Blurred backgrounds and pictures of beaches aren’t going to help you.…