Emotional 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 ArticleGet in the Know With Open-Minded Questions
Three years ago, I was coaching a successful company that was very confused about the failure of a recent product launch. When I was first hired, they told me they were convinced they had done...
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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