Jun 27, 2023
And why I am still not done learning from it. Earlier in my career—yes, around that same time where I almost traded in my suit for a chef coat—I was burning out so much that I burned out the people around me, including individuals I was meant to lead. I was running at...
May 16, 2023
Subconsciously I knew failure was the key to success—even when it sucked. I was following John C. Maxwell’s “Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward,” theory far longer than I actually understood it. If you went back and told my highschool self who had just...
Jan 17, 2023
How your eyes can trick you into thinking you’ll find more success somewhere else Remember that time I was so burnt out that I almost ended my career in infrastructure to become a restaurateur? I received a lot of comments on that posting along the lines of “I’m glad...
Nov 21, 2022
What major project leaders need to be equipped with for success in the fourth industrial revolution. Here’s the question: Are major project leaders and professionals equipped to support major project delivery in the fourth industrial revolution (4IR)? Well, that...
Oct 14, 2022
And how julienning carrots made me stick it out in major programmes. In 2015, I was finishing up the most successful year of my career to date. A couple promotions, some big bids won—in theory, I should have been on cloud nine. Instead, I was Googling how to open a...
Sep 21, 2022
You won’t regret reading these professional development books. There are approximately 130,000,000 books published worldwide with approximately 2.2 million new books being published per year in the US alone. If you read one book a week for the rest of your life,...