NOTE: For this post – I’m deliberately cutting the timeline off of this role call to mid 2016, as I still have a number of mentos prior to this period that I’m working with today – let alone the team I joined while at Virtustream. Over the years, I have been incredibly blessed in so […]
Read More Career mentors, a roll call of inspiration and aspirations.Core challenges in your work life? What about your personal life? Do you even separate the two? When do you take a fresh look at the challenges that you have? Do you take a spin through them to determine what could be at the root of the issues? Or do you persist forward, largely shoving […]
Read More Questions strung together? Do you have a similar challenge?Just over a year ago, I took an online course taught by Kelly McGonigle at Stanford University. The course was focused on willpower, and the basis of the course was the book that she authored a few years back titled, The Willpower Instinct. There are a number of reasons why I sought this out as […]
Read More Where to Start? Do 1 Thing, Today.Back when I used to work at Subway in high school, I had a friend that was working there as a second job with a very interesting guiding principle – he promised himself that he would learn one new skill per year and take at least one trip to a new location per year. I […]
Read More One Trip Per Year or Quarterly Retreats?One of the main reasons why I have been reluctant to build this site out is the tendency to go all out in terms of performance. I can remember one of my first projects back in the mid 2000’s when I first joined EMC, and we had a project that was red and getting […]
Read More The Extreme vs Good Enough To HelpEarlier I posted about Jocko, and this notion of Extreme Ownership. If you missed the YouTube vid of his Ted Talk, you should check it out. It is riled-up-worthy shit. After watching it end to end twice the other night, it dawned on me that this guy is an outlier. Anyone that does […]
Read More Andrenalize or Establish The Underpinning.