Pragmatic Tech Execution Blog

Most people who say they hate politics hate hollow political actions, not impactful politics.

The concept of “having a mentor” used to be a distant dream for me. When I first started in the working world, I sensed deeply the insights that a wise, travel-tested professional would be able to impart on me. They could help me understand how to steer my career towards the opportunities that aligned with my most cherished skills and my passions.

Process lets us solve hard problems. Rigidly adhering to outdated processes creates new problems. Originally published on Medium.com at Inflexible Process Could Be Stalling Your Projects 'Race Day' Image Created by Julie Fleischer Using Canva Throughout my career, I have bristled when someone referred to me as a “process” person. It’s not that the label doesn’t, in theory, fit some of what I bring to the table. If you define process as “a lightweight set of steps or framewor

I enjoy that liminal space organizations occupy right after their initial successes and as they are starting to scale. These are the teams I tend to run towards, chaos and all, to help them create enough structure for success. While every team is unique with their own specific chaos and own distinctive needs for structure, I have noticed recurring patterns.