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What Are You Grateful For?

August 9, 2022 Attitude No Comments

My son’s 18th birthday. Me? Up at 3:30am, vending machine breakfast before boarding a 5:30 flight to Dallas Fort Worth. We got to have dinner with him the night before. Nice BBQ on the back patio. Watched him open his present, listened to him talk about the college dorm he’d…

Trust? You’ll Always Get the Same Answer to This Question

July 31, 2022 Attitude No Comments

I was once in an internal discussion about Trust. Not predictive trust, which is where a person does what they say they will do. Rather the kind of Trust that Patrick Lencioni speaks of in his book “Five Disfunctions of a Team”. That kind of Trust is the kind where…

Better Company Productivity? Look at Calendar Hygiene as Culture

June 30, 2022 Attitude Startups No Comments

The pandemic has forced companies to be remote. We were already seeing more and more companies that are “remote-first” or “remote-only.” In this environment, teamwork is even more critical, and slipping deadlines hurt the bottom line. Want to increase revenue and work satisfaction? Build a culture where people take pride…

First 3 Months on the CognigyCrew

May 27, 2022 Attitude Startups No Comments

Just wrapping up my first 3 months at Cognigy. It has been an enjoyable time with people I respect and trust. Not to mention the technology does everything they say it will. There is a lot of hype in tech, and many firms paint a picture that really isn’t realistic. …

Four Weeks on the #CognigyCrew

March 21, 2022 Attitude Conversational AI Sales Engineers Startups No Comments

Time flies by, and I’m having fun with Cognigy. The platform is as powerful and intuitive as I thought. The timing is also early enough that I’m able to get help onboarding. Startups almost always have Player-Coach leaders. Overloaded Players that always are needed on the field running plays can’t…

Proximity, The Key To Resolutions

January 22, 2022 Attitude No Comments

In an earlier article I wrote about Jerry Seinfeld’s productivity hack of not breaking the chain. If you’ve got resolutions you hope to achieve and want a little edge, let me share with you the value of Proximity as they relate to existing habits or patterns. We humans tend to…

I’ve Broken the Chain. So I Started a New One This Month

December 13, 2021 Attitude No Comments

Are you lacking the discipline to continuously improve your craft? Those 10,000 hours needed to master an art can seem daunting. As part of my desire to be more disciplined I made the mistake of tweaking Jerry Seinfeld’s productivity hack. Made it almost two and a half years and never…

Karma and Hiring Managers

September 22, 2021 Attitude Getting Hired Hiring Process Startups No Comments

I’ve interviewed with a good number of tech firms. No, not as a job hopper – rather as having been unexpectedly (temporarily) disabled. I experienced a longer than expected recovery time and one overconfident false start. Hiring managers have ghosted me the majority of the time. A solid education and…

I’ve Made Mistakes: On the Value of Trust

August 31, 2021 Attitude Startups No Comments

I was on a Sales Team meeting about a year ago. We worked down the list of AEs (Account Executives) for a certain topic. One of the new (to the team) reps started their update off with “I’ve made mistakes. There are things I could have done better.” They explained…

Resilience after Four Years of Self Reflection

August 16, 2021 Attitude No Comments

Today marks four years since a bad decision (no seatbelt while on a dry lake bed) and bad luck (wrong place, wrong time) changed my life’s trajectory in so many ways. Some points I’ve learned: I am more aware of, and have a great appreciation of, true integrity and backbone.…

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