How To Embrace the Effort
Embrace the effort. If the effort is worth it, go for it. Effort is how we expand what we are capable of. When it is not worth the effort? When you are chasing what other people want for you, versus what you want for you.
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Great Lessons Learned from Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs paved a powerful path of innovation, excellence, passion, and prosperity. These are my 25 lessons learned from Steve Jobs.
The Challenge of Personal Change
The fastest way to change your results is to change a habit or change yourself. The problem is, changing yourself isn’t always easy, especially when you don’t have a framework.
Arete: The Pursuit of Excellence
By choosing the path of Arete, while remembering that we're human, fallible, and with feet of clay, we create an arena to be our best, in our own way.
Microsoft Competencies for Skilled Effectiveness
When i first joined Microsoft, I felt like I had joined an elite team of smart people that gets results. Microsoft is a big place, and I had joined the Developer Support Team. It was an interesting team and I was surrounded by people who worked smarter, harder, faster, and more effective than anything I had ever seen before. There were people that built robots and people that built rockets. There were former accountants and former professors. The intellectual horsepower was stunning and so was the passion.
I was curious how I too could become a skilled Softie.