Yesterday I had to do a presentation in front of a fairly large group of people, about 20. I didn’t know most of them and haven’t met most of them before. I knew a little bit about what they do and knew the nature of the meeting that I was about to be a part…
This is an old saying… But the more people I encounter, the more I find it to be true. Birds of a feather really do flock together. It is critical to have the right people around you. What I’m talking about it your closest friends and associates and even family members that you spend the…
It is ironic to me how every year we make resolutions and promises to ourselves to be better and to do better in the new year, whatever that “better” means to each one of us. But as we approach the end of January those resolutions and promises fade, we get busy and tired, and get…
I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to share your knowledge with others not just to help them grow, but to help you grow. As Albert Einstein used to say, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” I remember the best professors in college and the best mentors in…
Feedback is so important and good for us. Why are we generally so awkward about giving and receiving feedback? I speak from experience when I say it is tough to both give and receive feedback. And of course the positive information is pretty easy to convey and to accept, it is the so-called “constructive criticism”…
So my previous post was about being the youngest person in the room. Well I have also had a few opportunities of managing teams younger than me by a few years. In many ways the take-aways have been similar to the lessons learned from managing more seasoned teams, but there are some key differences as…
I have often been the youngest person in the room. I still am the youngest person in the room most of the time among other C-suite executives and business owners. I have to constantly remind myself that I am where I am for a reason and because I am capable of doing my job, and…
I published an iteration of this article before through other media, but the topic is too good to set aside, and frankly, too important to limit to just one article. How to be a great leader? How to successfully move projects and teams forward? How to not become a whip-cracking boss whom no one respects…
I actually wear this distinction or a “millennial” proudly or rather more neutrally because it is just another attribute about me I can’t change. But some of my friends shake their heads and look away when they have to acknowledge they belong to this generation labeled as “entitled”, “lazy”, “self-absorbed”, “always on their phone”, etc.…