But, but, but what about my ego? Really, we’re still worrying about your ego? Look, if you really want to make sure that for the rest of eternity, in your world, you are and always will be the Top Dog then please continue to do the following; Ask the most edge case questions in an interview that no one would ever know just so you can feel smarter. Filter out people who give you that…

Tough topic, mentors, everyone (I think) wants one.  A guru of sage advice that probably resembles more Yoda then the Emperor.  I’ve read articles where people announced their mentors to the world and engaged them as a mentor early on in their careers even sought them out.  And still others who perhaps didn’t engage their mentor per se, but from afar read everything they had to offer, every book, post, tweet, etc and soaked it up…

I was trying to describe to someone a few weeks ago what it means when you are leading a team while at the same time fielding questions on how you deal with scenarios that might arise.  In it’s most simplest forms you need to think of your team as your kids and if you’re the leader of that team, congratulations you are now a single parent. How does that translate into what you’re trying to do?…

How many times has the resolution to a problem come to you when you stepped back from a problem? Perhaps you did something else? Maybe you talked to someone about it? Or maybe it just sat there for 2 weeks until you went back to it? Did it work? So why not do it more often? Oh that’s right, the time crunch, where everything needs to be fixed yesterday and you don’t have time to Step…

Definition the point at which your internal tank is empty and has nothing left to give.  No matter how much caffeine you put into your body, there is nothing left to give. Symptoms You find yourself unable to put in extra hours to accomplishing a particular task, diminishing returns is rampant in everything you are doing. Your Passion has drifted from where you could think of all the new things you wanted to do, to simply thinking…