Lessons Learned
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Throughout our careers, I am sure we have all had ups and downs. Sometimes, that shows up in feeling overwhelmed, wondering whether we’re making an impact, thinking, “There has got to be something more,” or realizing, “This is amazing! What an honor to be doing this!” Earlier on in my career, I bounced between positions…
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Lesson Learned #13 – Quarterly Planning Part 2 of 2 – Eisenhower Method “Eisenhower Matrix”… sounds fancy, right? I assume a good amount of us have seen it or heard it mentioned in various ways in our professional tenures. I first heard about it in my first post-collegiate position when my skip level leader started…
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We’ve started the new year and, if you’re somewhat like me, you may be sitting in the middle of two thoughts: For me, this isn’t necessarily a December into January thought. It hits me probably every 3 to 4 months. For some reason that’s my general cycle of “knock out a bunch of things… let…
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Oddly enough I learned this lesson when remodeling a house we owned in Knoxville. Sometimes you notice something that potentially needs to be fixed BUT, in reality, it only needs fixing because you’re so micro focused on it at the moment. Sometimes it’s best to give it space & time and then reconsider if you…
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Here recently I’ve been able to interview quite a few people to hopefully join us. One of the common questions I get asked is “What is it that you enjoy most about your job?” My answer is typically twofold: Focusing in on the second one in this post, I find that I’m often trying to…
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Fortunately… or unfortunately… I’ve worked at 7 or so different places thus far in my career journey. So, I have a handful of experiences when it comes to leaving teams and companies. For the most part, I can remember in decent detail the situations in which I left. I can also recall the last day…
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In my early teens, I started a company called “Alpha Tech”. Really it was just my way of working on computers for friends and family. I’d write up quotes, do the work, submit invoices, and move on to the next. I can’t remember if it was in parallel or later on, I eventually worked for…