What Makes You Special?
What makes you think you’re special? Have you ever been asked this rhetorical question? A question like this usually comes as a response to a request for an exception to the rules. The well-meaning...
View ArticleThe Future of Female Technologists
Seventy four percent of middle school girls express interest in science, technology, engineering and math yet only four percent pursue computer science in college. In an effort to change such...
View ArticleEmpathy is Everything: 5 Ways to Connect With Your Customers
“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.” — Meryl Streep From the boardroom to the classroom, empathy is a word we are hearing more and more about these days. At one time...
View ArticleIntrapreneurs Ignite Internal Innovation
Intrapreneurship was coined years before it became a “buzzword.” In fact, Gifford Pinchot III came up with the term in 1978 and Steve Jobs popularized it nearly a decade later, defining...
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Design Then Code
Mike Rundle taught himself just about everything he knows. And because his background is in both design and programming, and building animations is also a combination of those skills, Rundle read up...
View ArticleEmotional Strength Translates into Strong Leadership
“No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.” — Theodore Roosevelt Over the last decade there has been a huge increase in evidence that emotional intelligence is an important...
View ArticleA Marriage Made in Silicon Valley: A Marriage Made in Silicon Valley
Data scientists can frequently run up against a wall from their legal department when they try to innovate based on sensitive customer data. It makes sense — after all, data science teams and legal...
View ArticleAre You Measuring Value Metrics?
The data you choose to measure to test the success of a project is very important. If you measure vanity metrics instead of measuring real value based on the strategic goals of the organization, you...
View Article5 Leadership Principles Learned by Lincoln
“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” — Abraham Lincoln When asked to rank American presidents, scholars consistently...
View ArticleHi-Fi Prototyping : Design Is Our Muse, Code Is Our Medium
Prototyping facilitates rapid iteration and fail-fast (and learn-fast) experimentation, and helps the whole product team push technical limits Many job descriptions now list HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and...
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