Whiner or Winner?

Turn Whiners Into Winners

For technology executives, the one constant is change. However, as humans, we are by nature, creatures of habit. This could easily explain why so many folks are resistant to change. Change does not, by definition, feel familiar. It’s awkward, different and for many, uncomfortable. But like all things new, we can choose how we respond [...]

Just Released: Christian Marshall Lichtenwalner!

Joint Venture, Trina Weymon and Benjamin Lichtenwalner are proud to announce the much anticipated release of Christian Marshall LichtenwalnerTM. Christian is the production version of the project formerly codenamed “Ichabod Hortimer”. This first release of the joint venture is the product of 9 months intensive development and quality assurance testing. Christian was fully deployed by [...]

Achieving Your Dreams and Lessons for Life

Can you ask for more in a presentation? 1 hour and 16 minutes of life lessons, wisdom on achieving your dreams and much, much more. Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007. Included within is a great deal of humor, optimism [...]

Change

Today on my commute in, the train engineer announced that the conductor was retiring after 40 years. I would miss this guy – after all, I chatted with him almost every morning and he rides a motorcycle, which makes us kin in some circles. More importantly (and potentially relevant to you), his 40 years of [...]

M.B.A. T.I.M.I.N.G.

I had someone ask me the other day why I decided to get my MBA when I did if I thought the timing mattered. I did not have some grand scheme to relay to him that showed some great wisdom in my own timing. However, I did appreciate the “real world” experience I had before [...]

It’s not you, it’s your experience

One of the things that never gets any easier for me as a hiring manager is rejecting applicants. At this point, I probably interviewed more than 250 people over the years (it doesn’t help that I am always working in high growth organizations). Of those 250, I hired about 50 (generally speaking, HR screens candidates [...]

MBA / MS for CIO / CTO

Thinking about going back to school? Trying to decide on an MBA or MS? No worries, just choose the rest of your career path (and no pressure either, by the way). When I was preparing for graduate school, I was torn over whether to pursue an MBA or a Masters, when a professor asked me: [...]

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