I drive about 4 miles to work and back every day.  Sometimes, if I’m lucky, I get to drive it twice a day!  Most people will complain about their commute and so here’s my little blurb on it.  It sucks.  4 miles, takes me about 12-15 minutes depending.  Of course not all the traffic signals are timed and so you can’t ever hit them all in a row.  Wouldn’t this be a nice way to start off the morning, going the speed limit and being rewarded by hitting every single …

I read this book, “The Innovators Dilemma”, the other day in one sitting.  It wasn’t too long which was a good thing for me.  I have a tendency to pick up large books and not finish them.  The book took a shot at trying to understand why companies that do everything right can fail.  Specifically it analyzes disruptive technology and gives insight on how to deal with it as a product manager.  It comes highly recommended by people like Andrew Grove (Intel CEO) and others that collectively worked to make …

One of my new kicks this year is to strive for better networking.�
This past year I’ve spent a lot of time getting into the swing of school, work on creating a vision for my future, and defining tasks and or goals along the way that I can work towards in order to achieve my vision.  The vision exercise is something that I think everyone should go through.  I think that so many of us “millennials” feel like we’ve got this grand picture of making a huge impact on the world …

Is leadership the same as management?  Management the same as leadership?  Do good leaders make good managers and good managers naturally good leaders?  These are questions that seem to pop up a lot when chatting with others about leadership, and here’s my take.
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Management is the practice of getting people to do things they don’t necessarily want to do.  Doing so often requires organization, rules, enforcement of rules when necessary, etc.  Would you agree?  Management exists to make people more productive, to provide a structure for a workplace so that work …

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Fear and stress, when not managed with minimization in mind, can lead to poor results from even the brightest, and most driven workers.  This blog post examines how this happens, and suggests that driving out fear and stress from the workplace should be a priority.
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You’re sitting there at Thanksgiving dinner with your extended family, and through all the fake conversations your 13 year old cousin suddenly bursts out, “I’m pregnant and I want to keep it”!  Silence falls over the table as tension fills the air.  Some hairs on the …