This Talent Whisperers’ blog aims to provider leaders with alternate perspectives and insights that help evoke Human Transformation in themselves and those they lead. The perspectives were arrived at through years of experience, observation and learning. That learning is kept current through ongoing experience, observation and through researched books on relevant topics.
Weathering Storms
Generative AI
10x Engineer Root Cause
New Hires
New Managers
Building Bridges
This “Building Bridges“ question is from my list of interview questions I for a Product…
Radical Candor
Data: Trust but Clarify
Trust but Clarify is a valuable practice often overlooked in analyzing data. We may follow…
Lean Out / Lean in
Talent Code Applied
Confidence Villains
The Dark Side of Agile
Along with the virtues of Agile Software Development also can come some destructive downsides that…
Death Crawl
Vectors of Influence
Different Stokes for Different Folks
Handling Interrupts
Lean Staffing – It’s about the People
The notion of Lean Staffing is best paired with the concept of The Lean Startup….
Start with Trust
The Room Where it Happens
As leaders, much of the magic happens in the one-on-one conversations either in the privacy…
Where to Begin the Journey?
Aliens as Customers
Imagine you had aliens as customers. From my experience, this is much better than assuming…
Perspectives
Embrace the Challenge
After riding the dot com wave as VP, Engineering for the fastest growing software company…
Orange Observations
Questions
Why are 10xers so rare?
Why are 10xers so rare if so much thought has been given into what makes…
Acknowledgement
Heart Rate Meditation
There are advantages for mind, body and soul to being calm oneself to be more…
Building Collaborative Groups with Broken Squares
In his book The Culture Code – The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups, Daniel Coyle…
Role Models
Inspiration, curiosity and drive for someone with a growth mindset can be sparked or fed…
Teach Someone to Teach
Give someone a fish, and you feed them for a day. Teach someone to fish,…
Level 5 Leading
I like to framing styles of leadership as I see them in the fish story….
Radical Candor in the Mirror
Radical Candor in the Mirror is about not being delusional or self-destructive. Instead, it’s about…
Radiant Energy
Making Rules
My first early childhood education exercise was to go to a pre-school where a teacher…
The Path to Enlightenment
The path to enlightenment lies not in the footsteps of another. – CD In developing…
Relentless
In Relentless – From Good to Great to Unstoppable, personal trainer Tim Grover explains what…
Content Strategy – Content Types
Content Strategy seems to revolve around at least nine types or concepts of content that…
Unconscious Bias / Privilege
Bird’s-Eye View
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