by Alex | Jul 25, 2016 | Gaming, Work
It’s been three months since I’ve said my token goodbyes to some very good friends from my old work. I’ve finally quit the old job after spending nearly a decade associated with them. It seems like I’m well on my way dissociating myself from...
by Alex | Mar 4, 2016 | Business, Work
Google shared “The five keys to a successful Google team.” I love reading these kinds of secret sauce that they claim make such organizations successful. Now, what’s supposed to be done with these kinds of information is to process them, reflect, see...
by Alex | Feb 19, 2016 | Business, Work
Any manager who doesn’t have a clear objective (or fail to communicate one) is destined for disappointment. It is critical to have a mutual understanding of expectations between team members when dealing with tasks. Some so-called managers don’t even...
by Alex | Feb 16, 2016 | Business, Work
We, old foggies, were transferred out to new assignments. That left some leadership void that (we are glad) our best people filled in. (I’d write about the Peter Principle some other time.) While part of letting your wards blossom is giving them space,...
by Alex | Feb 8, 2016 | Business, Work
So I’m helping out with recruitment and boy, do I really feel old(er). At this point, I am already an elder among young ‘uns at the office. I could really feel the generation thing happening as my kumpare, Kim, and I often share our peeves with managing...
by Alex | Jun 27, 2014 | Business, Work
We’re about to start a new development cycle at work and my fellow project leads and I were discussing how to we’d like to form our project teams. While we all desire a balanced matrix, one function head insists on going strong matrix where her team would...