Every new job you take something with you from the past one – something that might not have been your idea – but a great idea.  You take it and you bring it to the new one – “here let’s try this, it worked at my last place and could help us here.” Are you stealing?  Unless it’s Intellectual Property or something under an NDA – No.  You’re taking an idea, putting a twist on…

It would be great if everything you needed came to you with no strings attached. Even better, what if every agreement or technical discussion went your way. If you want to manage, don’t give to get, demand it… eventually you’ll get it. If you want to lead, you’re going to have to give, something, maybe not today or tomorrow but at some point you are going to have to give something to your team, some…

Who said you had to wait? Take on something else. Volunteer for assignments. Branch out into something you haven’t done before in your spare time and then apply it to work. Watch a course. The daily grind of grunt work holding you back?  Than starting grinding daily on how to get rid of the old grunt work and create new work – automate it, break it out, eliminate it, combine it – you’re the expert -…

Team Leadership in any form is not black and white – every person on your team, project, group is different and in time you will identify the need to Navigate the Gray Area between the black and the white where a decision for one situation might not be able to be applied to the other. There are no steadfast rules for Navigating the Gray, only if you choose not to and seek to remain within…

Whether you are a Team Lead or a Manager you are now responsible for a group of people.  It doesn’t make a difference whether it’s one person or five, the level of responsibility that was not previously there is now there. At the end of the day, in the software sector, both roles will still rely on a deep passion for technology and creating innovative solutions to complex problem sets.  That’s a mouthful but how…