My entrepreneurial journey has come to an end, and though I felt some guilt about it at first, the truth is, I’m relieved.
To Entrepreneur or Not to Entrepreneur
Posted on Oct - 26 - 2010
Categories: Career & Professional, Entrepreneurs, Family, Lessons & Epiphanies
It’s Not a Career Path, It’s a Career Highway
Posted on Mar - 29 - 2010
As a career management advocate turned Entrepreneur Evangelist, I recently had an epiphany that clarified some of the change I’ve experienced over the past two years, as I’ve moved from my old life to my new one. I’ve been lacking an effective metaphor to describe both the process and my present (and potentially future) state. [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs, Lessons & Epiphanies, Life & Lifestyle
Tis the Season to be Independent
Posted on Dec - 01 - 2009
In Deck the Halls with Pink Slips I discuss the November round of layoffs at several big companies. Of course, part of what brought these to my attention is that a dear friend of mine got caught in the pre-holidays cut-backs at Adobe. Even worse, however, was the fact that my friend loved working at [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs, Lessons & Epiphanies, Life & Lifestyle
Keeping Your Spirits Up During a Job Hunt
Posted on Jul - 01 - 2009
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 [ Read More ]
Categories: Family, Friends, Lessons & Epiphanies, Life & Lifestyle
20/20 Hindsight – Transitioning a Services Company to a Product Company
Posted on Apr - 27 - 2009
This is something I’ve been thinking about more and more recently. The fact that we started off as a services company is what allowed us to get started and to avoid having to rely on outside funding. But it was transitioning to a product company that allowed us to grow and scale, and to ultimately [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs, Leaders, Lessons & Epiphanies, Mentors
20/20 Hindsight – Getting Your Start in a Startup
Posted on Apr - 23 - 2009
People who did not meet me until at or around my 25th birthday would never believe it, but in school, I was the Queen of Slackers. Truly. School was too easy, too routine and I spent too long doing it to be able to breath new life into the experience. I could dodge classes, do [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs, Friends, Leaders, Lessons & Epiphanies, Life & Lifestyle, Mentors
Why Agile Isn't Just for Development
Posted on Apr - 21 - 2009
It’s been years since the evangelism for Agile development started truly gaining momentum. Super sexy buzzphrases phrases like “reduce time to market,” “improved ROI,” and “lower development costs” have all been invoked to support the case for adopting an Agile methodology over the old-school Waterfall approach. The fact is, most experienced professionals have lived through [ Read More ]
Categories: Career & Professional, Entrepreneurs, Leaders, Lessons & Epiphanies
Nine Unemployment Survival Tips
Posted on Apr - 11 - 2009
Not working is easily ten times more stressful than working — unless, of course, money is not a concern in your life. Unemployment or underemployment is difficult to manage on multiple levels, because — just to name a few examples — it has such a huge impact across all spectrums of your life: Financial stability [ Read More ]
Categories: Family, Friends, Lessons & Epiphanies, Life & Lifestyle
Guest Post: Response to "Winners and Windmills"
Posted on Mar - 03 - 2009
After writing my post last week, Winners and Windmills, I asked my friend, the lovely and talented Tiffany Miley-Parks if she would be willing to write a follow-up piece that addresses what happens when “passion and skill” are not longer aligned with the “opportunity and circumstance” that make a work environment exciting. She graciously complied [ Read More ]
Categories: Leaders, Lessons & Epiphanies
Time Management & New Projects
Posted on Feb - 12 - 2009
Well, things have been crazy as I’ve been learning the ropes for my new roles: Principal & Co-Founder of The Indigo Heron Group, Inc. and Managing Editor of Social Computing Magazine. Lots to learn and lots to do, much of which has taken it’s toll on my blogging efforts. I’m working on some new time [ Read More ]
Categories: Career & Professional, Entrepreneurs
Why Government is Like IT
Posted on Jan - 28 - 2009
As the debate about the best approach to an economic stimulus package rages, I am reminded time and again of the conversations I’ve had throughout my career with non-IT executives when it comes to IT work. Coming from an IT background, of course, I have often found the conversations frustrating, unrealistic and short-sighted, which is [ Read More ]
Categories: Lessons & Epiphanies
Entrepreneurial Lessons from Growing Up in a Family Business
Posted on Jan - 19 - 2009
As with most major life lessons, it has been many years of gradual recognition that have allowed me to finally begin to understand the full impact of growing up in a family-owned small business. As with most other major life events or conditions, the lessons I thought I was learning at the time often evolved [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs, Family, Lessons & Epiphanies, Mentors