The Pragmatic Strategist

Scrappy Swimlane High Level Overview

Much thanks to Sherry Lowry from Bridging Futures for this picture. As with all items of this type, it’s eerily familiar enough to be both hysterical and cringe-worthy for those of us who make a career out of this. (Click on the image to see the details.) Send to Facebook

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StrengthsFinder 2.0 – The Assessment

I admit it: I’m an assessment junkie. I enjoy taking different assessments to see what they say, where I think they are accurate and where I think they are full of it. Invariably, I will usually find something insightful in most of them that helps change the way I think or communicate with others. As [...]

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TechRanch Employee to Entrepreneur

Like Luke Skywalker, apparently I can no longer escape my destiny. After years of avoiding self-employment, I’m now in the thick of it. And because one of the most important things to being successful in this space is connecting with others, Charles and I are starting TechRanch’s Employee to Entrepreneur program this week. It’s been [...]

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Keeping Your Spirits Up During a Job Hunt

Job hunting is rough for oh-so-many reasons. One of the things that is hardest about it, though, is managing your own attitude and spirits. If there is one thing that is liable to get you into trouble during a job hunt, it is unmanaged anxiety. I’ve written before about some of the things that I [...]

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A Left Turn in the Gen X Timeline

Sort of figures: tonight was the first time in weeks I’ve been able to set aside some time to do some catch-up blogging. I have a list of things I’ve been meaning to write about — I was just trying to work the opportunity into my schedule. And now that tonight is finally here, I [...]

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100 Ways to Kill a Concept

Otherwise known as “How NOT to lead people, teams or projects.” Alternately, “What you should never say to anyone you care about.” the boss won’t go for that. the lawyers won’t go for that. the accountants won’t go for that. the client won’t go for that. the salespeople won’t go for that. the investors won’t [...]

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Wendy Laments for the Lost Boys

This week has been a bit of a melancholy week: my former team at Massive (acquired by Microsoft in 2006) has found themselves almost all the victims of radically changing economic conditions. As part of Microsoft’s plan to reduce several thousand jobs in 2009, their Massive division has been almost entirely cannibalized. Aside from the [...]

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