The words both start with L-E-A, but can leadership really be learned?
As a consultant, I have the pleasure and challenge to work with a variety of different teams. I am a team of one, but I collaborate with agency teams (such as Happy Cog, whom I’m working with on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum project), [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Learning'
Can Leadership Be Learned?
March 6th, 2010 · Comments · Consulting, Strategy
UIE Virtual Seminar with Tamara Adlin: Ad-Hoc Personas
February 22nd, 2010 · Comments · Education
User Interface Engineering (UIE) hosts wonderful virtual seminars every month on a variety of UX-related topics. This month was no exception. Tamara Adlin, a user experience consultant based in Seattle, WA, put together a smart and practical presentation titled, The Power of Ad Hoc Personas: Truly Practical Methods to Get Your Organization On the Same [...]
Using Twitter for Friend Advice
January 14th, 2010 · Comments · Twitter
I ask questions on Twitter all the time on a wide variety of topics, and I usually get really useful responses — but never as many as when I ask about interpersonal issues.
A little while ago I posed this question:
“What do you do when someone you really care about won’t respond to your emails & [...]
Pleasure and Pain turns 2
January 11th, 2010 · Comments · Blogging
I started this blog two years ago on January 10, 2008 with a post titled, Genesis. I didn’t know at the time just how fitting a word it was. It truly marked the beginning of my re-creation.
Since then I’ve published 447 posts (including this one), received 1,491 comments, and had 159,031 unique visitors.
The stats [...]
Happy New Year to You
January 5th, 2010 · Comments · Digressions
2010 is here and I can hardly believe it. A new decade. A new period of time to look forward to with high expectations and even higher hopes.
At this time….
…ten years ago, I was starting my last semester of high school and looking forward to the freedom of college.
…five years ago, I was starting [...]
