You have worked hard, but that position you desire seems out of reach. You know you have the technical competency—your mind may even be brilliant—but somehow there’s something that makes other people feel like you’re “not quite there yet.” At the same time, you’ve seen others who progress faster and people say that they are “leadership […]

I had trouble with Xfinity and had to call in a support fellow to my home. The whole time while he was working his phone kept ringing. He said, “Oh, I am tired of hearing that.” I asked if it was his company calling him. He said yes. Then I asked him if he liked […]

Being an open book is scary for many people.   And this is what I find in our line of work. My company is a technology consulting company that helps other organizations benefit from project portfolio management, business intelligence and collaboration solutions. There are plenty of reasons to have these tools: improving project oversight, increasing productivity; […]

Very early one morning, I was returning a rental car near LAX. The rental car lot was miles away from the airport. It was still dark and I was having trouble finding it. As I was anxiously looking about, I heard a shout from a car. I listened, looking tentatively out of my passenger-side window, […]