Posts in category: People

Do you know someone that disagrees with everything you or anyone else says? Some people are pathologically wired to push back. It makes no difference if it’s on a subject they know nothing about, they’re operating assumption is that everyone, and I m ...

I work best under pressure. Have you ever heard someone say that? I have. In fact, I’ve even said it. What does it mean that someone works best under pressure? A Dialog Many times you hear those words when someone is trying to justify their lac ...

My son, who is a developer with a few years of experience, posed this question to me recently at breakfast. I could tell he was a little distraught. My answer was, “All the time.” I don’t think this was much of an encouragement to him. I later relay ...

Bobby Knight. You either love him or hate him. I’m from Indiana, so I love him. But that doesn’t mean I don’t recognize his significant shortcomings. To call him a flawed hero is an understatement. There’s one thing that is beyond dispute, however ...

Navigating our way through this pandemic is not too dissimilar to finding your way through a pitch-dark house in wee hours of the night.  Blurry-eyed and uncertain, stretching out your arms in faith hoping not to stub your toe, you follow a familia ...

I know, I know. You’re thinking, “Don’t you have that backwards, Ken?” Shouldn’t you be telling me to “work smarter, not harder”? I get it. One of the most cherished business clichés on our Cherished Business Cliché List is, “Work smarter, not har ...

In a wonderfully uncomfortable scene in the 1992 movie Glengarry Glen Ross, a hotshot salesman from company headquarters played by Alec Baldwin delivers the news to the salesmen at a New York City real estate office that two of their number will stil ...

Want to move forward in your career? Want to be upwardly mobile in the software development ecosystem? What to know one of the most effective ways to climb the career ladder? Help someone else out with their career. This is not intuitive. ...

There are few things more important to your health and welfare than keeping yourself in good physical shape. It’s a struggle for many of us (me), but in my experience, the times that I have been most disciplined in diet and exercise have been the mos ...