If you could erase any single piece of information from your knowledge what would you choose? This question was sparked by a conversation I had with one of my colleague, who while telling me about a tragic accident that cost a life during a flight. She made the comment that after she found the information…

There’s a difference between leading people and managing people. When we manage people we’re telling them what to do. When we lead people we ask them to follow a direction or path and cheer them, sometimes even ahead of us. In order to be a good leader, you must care personally. Caring personally is what…

Self-interest is a funny thing. It drives many of our actions, however, it doesn’t always drive our most proactive actions. Positive changes and proactive actions are often accompanied by great self-sacrifice and discomfort. If you’re considering a course of action but decide against it because of fear of vulnerability, how others are going to see…

Before you criticize always ask how you can help. This is a golden rule for management. No one, that I know of, has ever happily worked harder or faster when being criticized. Always care personally and be invested in your team.

It’s amazing how planning, and taking preemptive action in general, can save you incredible amounts of time. This principle even holds true when creating variables in code. To understand the value of variables we start by asking: What’s the point of a variable?” Variables allow us to store information Variables allow us to quickly reuse a value in…