When I was an Impostor Engineer… One of the things that surprises people most when they learn about my past education + work experience is when they discover that I used to be an engineer. I don’t come across as having much of an “engineering personality” according to friends. If you had told me in […]
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Have you ever been in a job where you’ve wanted nothing more than to walk out the door and never come back? Most people have been (or will be) there at least once. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with leaving a role that clearly isn’t a good fit. But doing it in the wrong way can come
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One of my neighbors worked his whole life and dreamed of retiring and finally buying a boat. He retired, bought his dream boat, and then was suddenly diagnosed with cancer. He unfortunately fell into poor health and died a couple of years later, never able to take out his prized boat. It sat unused in
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When Good Food > Big Armies In 1475, Edward IV, King of England, landed on the coast of France with an army of 13,000 men. His single objective: to seize the crown of France for himself and end the Hundred Years War. Edward had every reason to be confident. He was already renowned as a brilliant military
I was just starting an MBA program and had a goal to do 10 info interviews per week. An info interview is an informational interview you have with someone at a company you’re interested in working at, with the intent to learn more and ask to be referred into an open position. Back then I
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Delhi, India 1858 When the British troops entered India in 1858, they had an oddly specific (but very serious) problem with the wildlife there. Cobras were everywhere. So the British Crown devised a bounty system – bring in a dead cobra and you get paid. Simple. And the Indian population did just that. They were
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When a Red Robe Leads to Trouble… In 1765, the renowned French philosopher Denis Diderot had a serious problem: His daughter was about to be married. Normally this would be something for celebration, but Diderot had a shameful, and not well-kept secret. Despite an incredibly successful career as a philosopher, art critic, and writer (best known for
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A good book can change your life. We have been deeply impacted by what we have read, and recently were discussing books that have truly been so thought-provoking we think about them constantly. Here’s our list! Man’s Search for Meaning This is a book everyone should read. It was written by Viktor Frankl, a psychologist
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Sell a company, make someone a millionaire, or be an Uber driver…what should be on your list? A Business Bucket List A few weeks ago I shared my “business bucket list” (a list of achievements I’d like to do in my career). If you haven’t already read it, you can read about the first
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“At all costs, avoid competing in an industry where your product is just a commodity”. Those words (or variants of them) are spoken in nearly every business school in the world. Would-be entrepreneurs and executives are regularly warned about the perils of creating a business with an undifferentiated product (e.g., a product or service that
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