I was thinking about my experience during my current search for my next challenge and it dawned on my that this journey has some interesting parallels to Dorothy’s experience in The Wizard of Oz. We both were surprised by a tornado that took us into an unfamiliar place, had to get our bearings and find a […]
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What Have You Done For Me Lately?
I was speaking with someone recently who had recently been downsized from a company that they had been with for over 15 years. Over that 15 years they had moved up the corporate ladder and were regarded as a rising star in the organization early in their career. Over the past couple of years however […]
Don’t Be Afraid Ask
Over the past couple of months as I have been looking for my next career challenge I have been lucky enough to enjoy a lot of amazing conversations, meet a lot of really interesting people, and learn a lot from both the people I am meeting as well as my own experiences going through this. […]
Sniper With A Shotgun
Generally it is considered mutually exclusive to take the “shotgun” approach to innovation or the “sniper” approach to innovation. You are either in one camp or the other, but certainly not in both. In the shotgun approach you fire lots of little ideas at the wall in a seemingly random fashion in hopes that one […]