Many troubling issues in our world today. Home, work, family, world, across the board. There is so much going on that we can easily reflect, recognize and understand that we are living in some of the most historic times in human history. If it seems a little scattered today, I’ll acknowledge that I am thinking […]
Tag: Work
We Need to Talk About AI for Common Folks
I’ll start with, I am not a “bot” and this is not being written by “AI.” That said, it is highly unlikely that you would know if I generated this with some form of AI. Unless you know me well enough, you may not be familiar with any kind of nuisances I have in my […]
Ladies and Gentlemen this is your Captain Speaking PREPARE for a Bumpy Ride with MS Copilot
Simply Speaking Microsoft Ignorance Microsoft had a change management team which coordinated changes across many of their services. As late as 2020, they didn’t have a good handle on change management and as a result, they made changes that caused business harm. I didn’t have the same insight to their change practices in 2022 but […]
Cutting a Path: Building a Vision
What do you do when you are given a goal or an outcome but no instruction on how to get there? What do you do when you are placed in charge or established as the person leading an initiative and you haven’t done it before? What do you do if “fake it till you make […]
The Template(S)of You
The next few posts will be a short series of common discussion points with people I coach. Whether you are looking for a job or you are already in one, it is important to communicate with people. Communication can be in many forms. Today, we are starting with the concept of a short description about […]
The Very Expensive Cost of Title
When I joined the Navy, I probably should have been named Admiral immediately. It would have made things much easier for me. I could have flown around in my helicopter from ship to ship, eating steak and shrimp with all of my people. The young prince with all the knowledge in the world and no […]
Incredibly Uncredible
Factoring in Relationships Overall, I have had a really good career. I started at the bottom in IT and worked my way into leadership stepping through many roles. Early on my work was very technical and as years past, the work become more technically abstract. What I’ve learned along the way is that nothing is […]
Collaboration Services – Leadership
Technology today drives “the way” (methods) in which most of us collaborate. Successful collaboration depends on “collaboration patterns” which are independent of specific technologies. The mistake many people make is to depend on commercial collaboration technologies without investing the time and resources to understand the complexity. Organizational success for collaboration services depends on the overall […]
Can’t Stop Saying, Sir
Virtual Collar Device In the military, there is clarity of role and responsibility. Someone has a designation and rank which is clearly displayed unless a condition exists in which it cannot be. Someone has contextual control of a situation and leads under a condition, state or mode. Everything is simplified in the understanding of who […]
You Need a Job | Now What?
Make Moves The career path today looks more like a zig-zag vs a straight line. Corporations are making corporate decisions. These decisions don’t account for individuals. I believe people do care about each other but when it comes to business, things get fuzzy. For whatever reason the job is no longer there. It Hurts […]
The Cohenization Project 