The Brag Document: Your Career's Most Underused Tool There's a quiet failure that happens to professionals every single year, and it happens not because of poor performance, not because of office politics, and not because of ...
Have To vs. Get To: The Two-Word Reframe That Changes How Your Career Reads in the Room You're Not In Take a second before you answer this. Don't rush it. Is rain a good thing, or a bad thing? If you're a farmer who hasn't ha...
Your Manager Is Not Your Career Sponsor I want you to think about the last time you had a real career conversation with your manager. Not a project update. Not a status check. A real one — where someone in that room was genui...

I've been a software developer for multiple Fortune 500 companies and spent time in the software consultant world, too. The past few years, I made the transition to management and currently lead a team of over 40 developers across the globe. In my 30 years, one thing I've realized is that most managers spend the majority of their one-on-one time focused on project status and not on career development. It's usually left for the individual to figure out how to progress. I have found that I actually enjoy mentoring and coaching and my teams are consistently recognized as some of the top teams in the company.