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Newsletter The Leadership Conference Where I Was 1 of 10 Men (Out of 500) What being the extreme minority taught me about the invisible work we force on others… My wife and I decided we needed to be more Read More » December 2, 2025 No Comments
Newsletter The Way Engineers Help Their Teams That Quietly Holds Them Back The Facebook Marketplace moment that showed me what I’d been doing wrong as a manager… The other week, I sold some computer monitors on Facebook Read More » November 25, 2025 No Comments
Newsletter Promises Don’t Rebuild Trust. Pattern Changes Do. It is not the big failures that cost you. It is the pattern everyone else can see. I picked up a client last year because Read More » November 18, 2025 No Comments
Newsletter What an Uneventful Week Taught Me About Remembrance Day “Sometimes an ordinary week is its own kind of gift…” Have you ever had one of those weeks where, if it hadn’t happened, you’d be Read More » November 11, 2025 No Comments