October 1, 2022 It’s a lazy, chilly Saturday morning. The house is still and I’m happy to have a quiet moment to reflect. Even on this weekend morning, I participated in several work conversations about ongoing issues and strategic questions with implications on the team’s future work and direction. …

Today I had a couple of mentoring sessions. Generally, I’m talking to people about career advice with an eye toward getting a new or better job. But today, one of the people already had an offer in hand and was asking for advice as he transitioned into the role he…

The Plight of Junior Developers — My first real job as a coder came in the Summer of 2000. I was still in college at Georgia Tech at the time and I worked some odd jobs to pay bills. One night, I was simultaneously working the door at a nightclub in Atlanta and reading a math…

If you have landed here and are interested in Leadership then I am going to guess that you and I have the same goals for our teams. Let me define what some of those are so that we can assure that we are on the same page. Team Goals You…

Working Title — How Promotions really happen When I started working at Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) back in 2000, I started as a paid intern while in my last year of college. Over the course of the next 16 years I moved through the ranks from junior developer to senior…

I was recently introduced to the GLOBE Project’s list of Universally Desirable Attributes for leaders. These apply to every leader in every field. The twenty attributes were sort of obvious and generally passed the sniff test. The sort of words that we love to see and think — “Yes —…

Ideas on creating human connection from anywhere — “Do you have a minute? I have a quick question.” I had 20 minutes and I needed an answer from Jerry, one of my tech leads, before my next meeting. What happened instead was an undeniable reminder that the world had changed and I needed to change how I ran my team going forward. “How are you doing?” “How is…

In late 2021, I posed a question about newly remote team culture. Many of us have found ourself forced into this transition very quickly and as such we have also found ourselves on new ground when our former company and team cultures often revolved around being together in the office. …