Pick it and Kick It
If you can be enthusiastic about something, over time, you can be successful at the thing you’re enthusiastic about. Of course, you have to extend your enthusiasm longer for brain surgery than you do for basket weaving to be competent, but you need it for both to be any goo...
The End of a Manager
In early 1999, my wife Beckie, our newborn son Hank, and I lived in a pre-fab log cabin in the shadow of Mount Tamalpias in San Rafael, California. On Tuesday nights Beckie and I took massage classes at Mill Valley High School and on weekends hiked up the Dipsea Trail with Hank i...
My Clients, My Friends, My Dates.
tarting out with a new client is a lot like modern dating. There are the Instagram posts (usually the first few boardroom meetings with PowerPoint decks) that make you look hip, smart, and on the cutting edge. Then there’s the boozy dinner, and if that works, someone wil...How To Look Happy (when you aren’t)
All's well that ends well.
Scrum Masters: Take Time Off To Think
There's more than what's in the two-day class to know.
What the Experts Won’t Tell You (about becoming a consultant)
Figure out what you like doing and who will write the big checks for you to do it.
Catch Someone
