If you read any news or blog site today, you will know that all of our jobs are gone. If you are sitting in a classroom right now, maybe in your fourth year, ready to get your first job, it is apparently gone, and there is nothing left for you. The degree I graduated with from university is far from what I do today, where the jobs at the time were not there, so I…
Never enough time, resources, money, opportunities, customers, people, etc. There has never been enough, and there never will be. Pick your “thing” you don’t have enough of, it shifts over the course of your career – opportunities, money, earnings, customers – there will never be enough. Knowing there will never be enough, would you change your strategy? Would you take a different approach to what you want to achieve? Would you do something completely different?…
When you go up against the best, you are more than likely going to fall down, trip up, or make a mistake. After all, they are the best, and you are not, so they know how to do everything and anything to stop you in your tracks. But the more you go up against them, the better you will become, the smarter you will get, you will start to see patterns emerge, and you will…
Picking the solution is the easy part, it’s the options that take time. The analysis, the evaluations, the comparison, and narrowing down to the most applicable is the most important work that happens before you give out the options. It’s not easy work, but when presented to those who need to pick a solution, it greatly simplifies their lives and makes moving forward that much easier. When the option analysis is convoluted, messy, incomplete, or…
Conferences are not training. You can travel and go to a training course where they deep dive you on a topic for one week. Maybe you are there with a colleague or two, but you are not there with thousands of people, all in one class, all learning a topic and struggling through labs. This is good because struggling to do a lab with a thousand people would be daunting on a good day. Conferences…