How is your soul?

The concept of good morning doesn’t cut it anymore.  I want to start my interactions with people on a more personal level. …

Having the right response to others makes collaboration much easier.

1. Is it constructive or destructive?
2. Is it positive or negative?
3. Is it selfish or …

The older I get, the less I relish instant gratification, acknowledgement, and self-promotion.

Maybe I just feel confident in my abilities (warning: …

I am constantly surrounded by a very diverse group of individuals. I can name 15 differently languages that can be spoken in my work hallway alone. …

There was no update in the last 2 weeks. Just silence, crickets, and an occasional rumor that something was amiss.

At the monthly business review, …

When someone smiles at me, I catch myself drawn in and smile back.  Frowns, grimaces, or scowls push me away.  When I walk down the halls at work, I …

I believe Ecclesiastes has become my favorite book in the Bible.  There is so much packed into the verses for contemplation, guidance, and just pure …

The apostle Paul couldn’t have said it better:

Php 2:3-5  Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more …

My thirty days of intentional living posts are finished!

I wouldn’t have been able to do this at all without the support of my readers, my …

A local radio show this morning was having a conversation about using a scorecard for children’s behavior for parents. 

Green mean that all …

Everyone must serve somebody, even if it is yourself. As employees, we server our managers or company. As a husband I serve my family.

I state many …

It is almost a certainty that you and the company that you work for will go through a major change. With every change comes fear, doubt, tension, …

I pushed off work that I was going to do this weekend (prepping for the upcoming week). Instead, I fiddled around with some improvements to my …

How we create labels every day:

• That marketer will never understand software development
• That developer doesn’t do strategy
• He doesn’t …

I have found it extremely difficult to get started on projects that I think are daunting.  It gets even worse when I don’t know where to start. …

There is a 5 part podcast series on building your leadership pipeline that I was listening to this morning on the treadmill.  The part I was listening …

This is nothing new to most individuals, but really hit home to me today as I was looking at some team challenges.

1. We all have areas where we can …

A local radio show this morning was having a conversation about using a scorecard for children’s behavior for parents. 

Green mean that all …

Sometimes in order to get clarity of purpose, you have to figure out how to filter out the noise of life from the information that matters.  I think …

At four o’clock in the morning the world around me sounds very different than 9am. i appreciate the stillness.

However, I am often shocked when …

The first train of the day rolled by as I took a brisk walk to the coffee shop.  The podcasts were definitely aligned to stimulate my senses for the …

Dignity for me.  I want to be honored and respected.

Dignity for your neighbor.  They want to be honored and respected.

Student activism on gun …

I am most likely on the second half of my timeline.  I am now feeling an urgency in my step to leave a legacy for others.

Whatever it is, I know a few …

Meetings. How many of them can be changed, disregarded, and not even attended? Can one spend their time on more valuable work?

Automatically as I was …

Being uncomfortable gets my Spidey senses going. It is uncanny how I can see problems with much more clarity. The smallest details become chasms that …

Saturday morning weeding has turned into a quick 1 hour endeavor which I share with my wife.  There was one area I neglected for about a month though …

How do I rub off on others?  I had to really think about this question after listening to the EntreLeadership podcast featuring Dr. Jackie Freiberg on …

Reminder for my basic git aliases in Powershell along with my modules for posh-git and oh-my-posh:

function ga { & git add --all $args }
function …

Code reviews are one of the most important tools that can be used to improve quality and productivity for a development team.  One of the keys to …

In a few weeks I am going to give a presentation on doing great code reviews. Here is a piece that I wrote 5 years ago that captured the 5 W’s. …

I recently ran into an issue, where I had to mix environments while developing.  On top of the mixed environments, I was manipulating data. 

I had a …

George Washington (to Hamilton): … Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder.

I would like to rephrase this a little.

Execution is easy, …

Sometimes in order to get clarity of purpose, you have to figure out how to filter out the noise of life from the information that matters.  I think …

How is your soul?

The concept of good morning doesn’t cut it anymore.  I want to start my interactions with people on a more personal level. …

The apostle Paul couldn’t have said it better:

Php 2:3-5  Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more …

How we create labels every day:

• That marketer will never understand software development
• That developer doesn’t do strategy
• He doesn’t …

There is a 5 part podcast series on building your leadership pipeline that I was listening to this morning on the treadmill.  The part I was listening …

How is your soul?

The concept of good morning doesn’t cut it anymore.  I want to start my interactions with people on a more personal level. …

In the last few weeks, my daily routine has went out the window. Vacation, unexpected opportunities that require different time commitments,

changed …

I have asked in several interviews the following question.  On a scale of 1 to 5 how would you rate your knowledge on (fill in the blank topic) and …