I was introduced to the four stages of competence as a teenager, and I’ve used them to guide me while building hundreds of skills and even mastering a few.

So many of us get to the end of the day and wonder where the time went. We feel like more should have gotten done and that there are more tasks on the list than when the day started. We’re also not making any progress on things that matter (i.e., growing the business,...

Having a business can seem like a never-ending cycle of too many things to do.

I “retired” from an IT engineering/management position when I was 42.  “Retired” in this context means that I stopped being an employee at other people’s companies.

Real talk - this post is mainly for me.  

If you wonder why clients will not work with you, or companies will not hire you, then this post is for you.  

We were recently faced with a business situation and used the six thinking hats to make our final decision.

Edward de Bono introduced the concept of lateral thinking in 1967.   Also called creative thinking, the process challenges people to solve problems by using more than logical reasoning (often called vertical thinking).

Several years ago, my engineering team was given a seemingly impossible task.  Design and implement an infrastructure upgrade in ⅛ of the time that we “needed”.  

Incomplete tasks cause cognitive tension that persists until you complete them.