Over the course of time leading people and teams, I’ve learned various lessons. I’ve learned that leading by example is more powerful than leading by other attempts at motivation. I’ve learned that trust is important and that deferring to the expertise of others goes a lot further than pretending that you’re some kind of all-knowing…
I’ve actually had a few spare hours lately to get ahead on blogging, so I was just planning to push a post for tomorrow, read a little and go to sleep. But then I saw an article that made me get a fresh cup of water, turn my office lamp on, and start writing this…
About a year ago, I read this post in my feed reader and created a draft with a link to it and a little note to myself that said, “interesting subject.” Over the past weekend, I was going through old drafts that I’d never gotten around to finishing and looking to remedy the situation when…
It’s been over a month now since my last post in this series, and for that I sort of apologize. I think I’ve been channelling all of my instructive energy into my now-finished Pluralsight course, leaving the blog largely for opinions, screeds, and a random hiring announcement. So, let’s get back on track and wrap…
I absolutely love statistics. Not statistics as in the school subject — I don’t particularly love that branch of mathematics with its binomial distributions and standard deviations and whatnot. I once remarked to a friend in college that statistics-the-subject seemed like the ‘science’ of taking a guess and then rigorously figuring out how wrong you…
