This is an interesting statement because it’s not entirely focused on your best efforts, but rather on the comparison of your best efforts to someone else. In this case it should read – “Is your Best Not Good Enough when Compared to everyone else?” – to which we would all immediately reply – “Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, I’m not comparing myself to everyone else, I’m my own person, I do my own thing, I don’t compare…

What’s the worst part of your day? The part you could do without, the part that you dread occurring. The end of day status meeting. The morning code review that everyone chimes in on. Writing Unit Tests. The Slack Channel that is essentially a Gripe Channel. The eating of Snacks that don’t do anything for you? Whatever it is, figure out what it is, what bothers you about it, what makes you want to avoid…

The days where everyone would show up looking their best, eager to impress whoever was there. They would walk from booth to booth depending on who had the best swag or coolest posters, hand out a resume and walkaway, never to be heard or seen from again. I never hired anyone from a Career Day because it is treated as a “thing” to do, a job where the goal is to hand out as many…

That’s how many posts I’ve written since I started this blog – that’s a Milestone. I started it in 2014, in Seattle while eating a burger. At that time I was doing something akin to one blog a week. After attending the first cycle of the altMBA I kicked that up to posting 5 days a week. I don’t write every day, I do use the scheduling function in wordpress to keep me sane and…

When the economy is going well, whoever is at the wheel gets the praise. When you have a team that is filled with experienced, self-driven resources that deliver on their own, your job is simplified. When you have all the fancy tools and doodads to make yourself a success – it helps. Anyone can lead in these cases (and more) when everything is running well, the car is brand new, there are no issues -…