Sometimes in life, things come in patterns. With the blogosphere, this can happen quite frequently due to some big news topic. For me today, I’ve had two topics show up from seemingly random sources. Here they are:
Power Trips
Know how power works and what to do when it fails: Scott Johnson and Tony Dye both discussed recently about issues with power. Scott has a podcast about when a techie becomes a manager that I was listening to today that covered the need to learn about power when becoming a VP of Dev, while Tony just experienced issues with a bad UPS and reminded us to test them once in a while and invest in good hardware that you trust.
As leaders, we generally have one thing we tend to focus on. This is generally the way God wires us – with a focus toward one thing over all others. The problem is that we …
It starts simple enough – a problem comes up that needs to be addressed. Then another. Then another. Pretty soon, it seems like things are out of control.
Perhaps you are spending too much time …
God’s Word teaches us that difficulties will arise in our leadership. Paul is the most memorable example, as he struggled with imprisonment, beatings, shipwrecks, and even near-death to take the gospel to other parts of the world.
Guy Kawasaki put together a set of guidelines for using PowerPoint several years ago. While focused mostly toward startups doing pitches to venture capitalists, I think these rules can be used for leaders that cannot …
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