Category: Improvement

Positive Action: Baby Steps Towards Embracing Change, Part 1

"The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change" - Heraclitus "Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." - John F. Kennedy "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi For some of you, … Continue reading Positive Action: Baby Steps Towards Embracing Change, Part 1

Agility Through Improved Testing – A Humdinger of a Conversation Starter

Everybody loves to test, but especially developers. . . I hope you can sense the dripping of sarcasm in that sentence.  I get it - I truly do.  Who wants to test stuff when they can be saving the world with the next "Flappy Bird" or inventing the combo ruler/scale/CRM/weight loss app? In all actuality, testing is more than a boring … Continue reading Agility Through Improved Testing – A Humdinger of a Conversation Starter

Repost -10 Leadership Lessons You Don’t Want to Learn the Hard Way

I just had to repost this from Jack and Suzy Welch.  Not only are they extremely successful, but have an innate (or maybe it was learned) ability to encourage and build up individuals, organizations, and corporations.  Here is a recent post from them I saw on LinkedIn. If you’ve ever managed people, chances are you’ve had … Continue reading Repost -10 Leadership Lessons You Don’t Want to Learn the Hard Way

Don’t “Mess” Up the Culture – A Repost

Yes, I read LinkedIN headlines.  Sad, I know.  But I look for things not about what job someone is getting or how long they have been at a company or someone's latest Meme to describe their working environment, rather about how people created a wave of positive and successful change.  The following is, in essence, … Continue reading Don’t “Mess” Up the Culture – A Repost