I still remember the phrase my teacher Toby Hecht used often: Birds fly, fish swim and human beings tell stories. Whether you realize or not,whether you agree or not, your life is filled with stories: * stories you tell yourself * stories you tell others * stories you tell yourself about stories others told you… Continue reading
I was advising a young student who is getting into his first real job and wanted to keep everything plain and simple. The outcome was the following six simple growth equations. 1+1 = ? This is where you are working without a purpose. You don’t know what you want in life so you are confused… Continue reading
When I wrote “Beyond Code” (foreword by one of my heroes Tom Peters) in 2005, my research was limited to technology professionals because that was my whole world. My thesis then (I still subscribe to that even today) was that for technology professionals to keep growing, they not only have to be good at “code”… Continue reading