In everything you do, you are a leader. You might not know it yet or maybe you look at other leaders in your team and think “that’s not me, I can’t be like them, they just “know” stuff… sigh”. You don’t need a formally structured team to be a leader.  Helping a customer’s development team understand the latest coding interface you created is leadership, working with internal users on user experience testing or demonstrating…

I’ve often been asked what Leadership style/method do I use as well as listening to what others prescribe. I’ve always found this an odd question because I’ve always thought one of the great components of a great Leadership style is being able to switch up your style based on a variety of factors in play – environment, people, delivery, projects, – and many more. However, if there are three components that I believe every Leader…

Someone makes a wrong assumption – they must be evil. Someone accidentally sends you a connection request – it must be automated. Someone tries something new and fails – they don’t know what they are doing. Someone makes a suggestion without knowing all the facts – they couldn’t be bothered wasting their time to read your work. We can always choose to assume you the worst or we could start assuming the best and see…

What’s the value of an anonymous up click on a skill someone might not really know that you have when instead you can post a video of what you do? Or better yet have a customer create that video, staring at their phone saying how you helped them solve a problem. The Endorsements model is a great idea in theory but fraught with inconsistency as you can very easily endorse everyone on the page without…