Category Archives: Leadership

Fun at work

Having some fun at work is important. Even as teams work late nights to make deadlines or try to achieve the different organization and personal goals, it is important that they pause for some rest and relaxation. This builds team camaraderie, reduces stress and ultimately does improve productivity and employee retention. We have had various […]

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Management – Listening

One of the most important things one can do as a manager is to listen.  Often in a drive to appear assertive and decisive, one can forget to listen – you are hearing or appearing to hear, but not really listening. If you make a split second judgement on what you hear without really listening […]

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Leading a volunteer organization

In smaller towns, there are not a lot of technical events or conferences and if you are interested in learning or meeting other people with a passion for technology you have to travel to larger cities. So I got really interested when I heard of a fledgling .net user group and wanted to support it. […]

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