Success

Introduction In the course of your career (and likely life as well), you’ll come across unsolicited feedback and advice. You’ll also often consider seeking feedback, advice, mentoring and/or coaching to improve your performance or help…

Introduction A lot has been written about the importance of having friends at work, including in a recent 2022 report from Gallup. I would guess that most people who have had work friends before, during…

Leveraging hindsight to find a path forward Looking back I have always seen myself as someone who embraces change. For the span of my professional career, I seek out a new challenge every 2-3 years….

Introduction Many companies encourage employees to “go above and beyond”, and banish the phrase “it’s not my job”. It’s a well-meaning attempt to encourage collaboration and customer service, but sometimes it can become too much…

Introduction I have tried a few times to write about time management, but have struggled with it. This isn’t because I struggled with time management itself, but with trying to unlock my own secret behind…

The disappointment of being published in an encyclopedia Hidden deep past the second page of search results for my maiden name is a reference to an entry I contributed to an encyclopedia of pseudoscience. My…

Being Introduced to “Overtime” I was first introduced to overtime at my first job out of university. It was a contract position with a decent starting salary, but no medical coverage and no vacation time….