Category: Personal Growth
Leading and Managing through the COVID Downturn
March 29, 2020
Thank you all for your likes, comments and shares of my previous post, “What do Covid-19 and Y2K have in common”. As I read your comments, it struck me that it may be valuable to some share some of my learnings from other downturns. I have now been through six significant downturns or economic crises: the recession ...
Read moreA middle manager’s guide to managing in an economic downturn
March 26, 2020
You are a manager or director in a small or medium sized company. This is your first or second management role and you have never experienced the business turmoil of the past two weeks. What should you do now and what should you be doing next? The answer to the first question is likely more ...
Read moreCrying
November 11, 2019
Spoiler Alert…rant ahead I don’t get it. As employers, we ask our employees to bring 100% of themselves to work… be who you are… yet it is okay to have a stress cry at home, but it is not okay to cry at work. Why is it okay for a person to get stressed at ...
Read more“You 2.0”
April 26, 2018
I was catching up with a friend this morning. He is currently a senior executive at a $100+MM SaaS company, who like most of his peers, is heads-down, working long hours, grinding to a successful outcome for his company. Compared to me, he is still young, with a couple of kids in late high school, ...
Read moreSeven Lessons for New Leaders
January 1, 2018
In today’s tech world, many start-up and early stage companies are being led by a management team often comprised of first time “people managers”. Twenty-five years ago, when I became a manager at IBM, I was required to take a series of management courses that covered topics including managing performance, motivating employees, HR policy and ...
Read more6:30 is the new 7am!
December 6, 2017
I recently re-read a blog that I published from 2011 entitled “7am”. The essence of the post is that developing a discipline of starting your work day at 7am will affect the positive trajectory of your career. Well, it seems lately that 6:30 is now the new 7am. It is 6:08am. I am at a ...
Read moreCareer Advice 101 – Observations looking back over many years
September 14, 2017
When I was in my twenties and thirties, I didn’t have a career plan. Even though IBM invested heavily in employee development, I never took career planning seriously and unlike many of my peers, I never aspired to become a CEO or senior executive. I didn’t know what I wanted to do and worse, I ...
Read moreLinkedIn Behaviour & What it says about You
February 13, 2017
Frequently, I get invited to connect to people on LinkedIn whom I don’t know. Generally, I have a rule that I never accept an invitation to connect from anyone that I have not either met or spoken with on the telephone. I do this to keep my connections to people that are in my industry ...
Read moreBacking a Winner – an epilogue
June 8, 2016
It has been over two years since I wrote the blog “Backing a Winner” , which was about Larisa Yurkiw’s quest to fund her vision to become the fastest women in the world of downhill skiing. At that time, Larisa, who had her funding cancelled when the Alpine Canada cut their speed racing program, was ...
Read moreGetting Good at Email
January 13, 2015
Getting good at email. I just read an article on “Why you should get ridiculously good at Email in 2015”. I agree with everything he says in the article about “why” but he doesn’t tell you “how”. So here are my 7 tips. My apologies to those not using Outlook because that is my email ...
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