Last year a colleague, Jared Smith, suggested I read The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by Dr. John C. Maxwell. This post gives a quick overview of what I learned, with more details to be found in this PDF. Overview…
Professional Development – 2018 – Week 23
Dates covered: June 4-10, 2018 (week 23 of 52) Business Companies Can Address Talent Shortages by Partnering with Educators (via Harvard Business Review) Managing 21st-Century Political Risk (via Harvard Business Review) Career How Successful CEOs Manage Their Middle Act (via Harvard Business…
Professional Development – 2018 – Week 22
Dates covered: May 28-June 3, 2018 (week 22 of 52) Business Layoffs That Don’t Break Your Company (via Harvard Business Review) Why Marketing Analytics Hasn’t Lived Up to Its Promise (via Harvard Business Review) Career Just How Bad Is Business…
Professional Development – 2018 – Week 21
Dates covered: May 21-27, 2018 (week 21 of 52) Business Marketing in the Age of Alexa (via Harvard Business Review) How GDPR Will Transform Digital Marketing (via Harvard Business Review) Career Your Professional Growth Questionnaire (via Michael Lopp) The Career Manifesto…
Professional Development – 2018 – Week 20
Dates covered: May 14-20, 2018 (week 20 of 52) Business It’s Not about the Framework (via Harvard Business Review) Create Something and Start Selling It (via Harvard Business Review) How to Strengthen Your Reputation as an Employer (via Harvard Business Review)…
Summary: An Everyone Culture
One of the professional development training items that’s been on my to-read list was the book An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Development Organization by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey. This post gives a quick overview of what I…
Professional Development – 2018 – Week 19
Dates covered: May 6-13, 2018 (week 19 of 52) Business Strategy for Startups (via Harvard Business Review) Career The two career paths for software engineers (via Jamie Phillips) Foot-candles: the different paths to tech (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication Tips for…
Professional Development – 2018 – Week 18
Dates covered: April 30-May 6, 2018 (week 18 of 52) Career Reinvigorate Your Career by Taking the Right Kind of Risk (via Harvard Business Review) Escaping Sucker Culture (via The Software Mentor) Getting Laid Off In Tech: The Myth of Upper Middle-Class…
Professional Development – 2018 – Week 17
Dates covered: April 23-29, 2018 (week 17 of 52) Career Thriving in the Gig Economy (you need a place, routines, purpose, and connections with people) (via Harvard Business Review) Four Years in Professional Software Development (via The Software Mentor) How to…
Summary: The Ideal Team Player
One of the professional development training items on the books for FY18-19 at work was the book The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues by Patrick Lencioni. This post gives a quick overview of…