Talent Whisperers
blog to evoke
Human Transformation
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.
Aliens as Customers
Imagine you had aliens as customers. From my experience, this is much better than assuming…
Acknowledgement
Vectors of Influence
Lean Out “Down” / Lean in “Up”
Confidence Villains
Radical Candor, Meaningful Conversations
10x Engineer – The Root Cause
Start with Trust
Unconscious Bias / Privilege
New Hires
Questions
Powerful Questions and Active Listening [PHOTO: FLICKR USER MAGDALENA ROESELER] Powerful Questions will help when striving…
Where to Begin the Journey?
Talent Code Applied
New Managers
The Room Where it Happens
As leaders, much of the magic happens in the one-on-one conversations either in the privacy…
Perspectives
Handling Interrupts
For any team that is responsible for existing systems that are already in use while…
Building Bridges Between Product and Engineering
This “Build a Bridge“ question is from my list of interview questions I like to…
The Dark Side of Agile
Along with the virtues of Agile Software Development also can come some destructive downsides that…
Embrace the Challenge
After riding the dot com wave, I decided to leave high-tech and embrace the challenge…
Lean Staffing – It’s about the People
The notion of Lean Staffing is best paired with the concept of The Lean Startup….
Orange Observations
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…
Different Stokes for Different Folks
My high school history teacher Mr. Hupert always used to say “different strokes fo different…
Data: Trust but Verify
In his book, The Lean Startup, Eric Ries writes about the processes we used at…
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….
Why are 10xers so rare?
Why are 10xers so rare if so much thought has been given into what makes…
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…
Bird’s-Eye View
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…
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