Articles on Tech Leadership and Founder Growth
Getting to know your Out-Of-Comfort Zone
There is a popular adage that you have to step outside your comfort zone to achieve great things. We see in the popular works of literature, podcasts and movies. Many famous people proclaim that it was stepping outside of the comfort zone that helped them become who...
How to Mitigate First Start-up Risks?
How to Mitigate First Startup Risks with Smart Founder Coaching It is a very exciting time for you. You made the plunge and have started your own company. You have pulled away from the crowd and decided to focus on something of your own. In itself it is a very...
How do you handle yourself and lead during a professional crisis?
How Leadership Development Coaching Prepares You to Lead During a Professional Crisis Chaos… Racing thoughts… Rapid Heart Beat… Overwhelming anxiety… These are all the feelings that come up when we are faced with rapidly changing conditions, when crisis is upon us,...
Working at a Startup vs a Large Corporation: How to Choose
The question of company stage and size comes up in many of my coaching conversations. “That company was so dull.” “That company was so disorganized, they never had resources and didn’t know what they were doing.” Sound familiar? We all have strong feelings about the...
Time is money, but over time
Management Coaching for Better Time Management and Leadership How to manage your available time wisely while you still have it. Time is money, they say, when talking about how much it costs for a very busy and important person to attend to a task. Have you considered...
Premature Optimizations of All Kinds
Premature Optimizations of All Kinds How to stop building and start listening? As engineers and engineering managers our minds are wired to build. Give us a problem statement and we will get on solving it. This force is tremendous and makes us very successful at what...
Is there life after a bootcamp?
How to Advance in Your Career with Online Career Coaching You are on top of the world. Welcome to the software world! After grueling weeks and months, you are finally done with your coding bootcamp. You have built tech that you could not build before and now you...
What is possible? Are you limiting the future horizons?
What is Possible? Are You Limiting Your Future Horizons? Our past experiences can sometimes limit our possibilities for the future. Try to expand your horizons beyond what you already have experienced for fresh perspectives and opportunities. How brings you here? Do...
From Chaos to Structure on the Operations Team
Problem Challenges for a Manager: From Chaos to Structured Operations At my previous technology job, I was assigned a team that was malfunctioning and had a reputation of not being able to do much quality work. Nothing would ever come out of it, and when it did, it...