What if success is really about whether you find deep purpose in your work? What if success is about taking active ownership over your career or your relationship to your career?
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I’ve spent a career cautioning others on the risks of contract work-- a hero’s life-- and I’m now dabbling in face paint.
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Despite my best efforts, the readership of this blog has extended past my teams in #India, #Poland, #Israel and the #US... so a quick primer for newer folks might be helpful.
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Derailing democracy is a bug, not a feature. And the devil is in the details of the algorithms you’ll soon work on... applied at scale.
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Low-code/no-code is a noble goal because its intent-- like our greatest ambitions-- is to serve the underserved. But it’s just a magic stone.
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This is one way I recruit online. Cue upbeat pharmaceutical-commercial music.
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Our language in the office is important because it reflects who we are and what we aspire to
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A former colleague asked me what I do when my career feels stuck. He obviously wasn’t asking for advice. He was asking for a job.
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“Shameless name-dropping is a sin.” That’s the last thing I remember Pope Francis saying before I shushed him and fist-bumped Barack. It’s impossible to write a piece like this without name dropping. Sorry. Not sorry.
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Don’t be like Phil. He’s why every enterprise has 12 of everything-- 13 if you wait for the executive clock to reset.
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Counterintuitive lesson in servant leadership.
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The most powerful tool in the Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) toolkit is sponsorship. If you’re unfamiliar with D&I sponsorship, it’s when a person in power makes it their mission to help land bigger, better opportunities for their junior charge. It's the rather brilliant use of privilege against privilege.
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I originally published this anonymously almost 10 years ago. I’ve refreshed it here, cut-and-pasted like crazy and added an arrogantly-titled section called “The Answer” because when I re-read the original now, I think about how irresponsible I was admiring the problem without posing a solution
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One of my favorite people at work said that my Out-of-Office message is better than any of my blogs. They are no longer "one of my favorites."
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All I want to add to the conversation is a warning against romanticizing our pre-pandemic office culture. It’s ok to be optimistic about a more virtual future but it’ll take a lot more effort, experimentation and sacrifice than we’ve given it so far.
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Sent this message at the start of the pandemic: “Wrote this an hour ago. Please ignore the typos. Stay safe.”
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Originally published in 2013 in Information Week… anonymously.
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