How To Use An Experience Portfolio To Plan Your Career
Roles and titles are abstractions from the actual day-to-day work activities you do, but it’s easy to get caught in the trap of climbing a title ladder …
Doctor's Note
A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.
How rules set you free to give great feedback
Rather than being constraints how can rules set you and your teams free? How can this help you give great feedback and raise the quality of design work from …
Understanding Your Thinking & Communication Style
A classic human bias is to assume everybody else thinks the way we do, but of course they do not. Understanding your thinking style and how you manage that when …
Presenting your portfolio and yourself for interviews
When people will present their portfolios of work, they often forget the most important thing, which is the storytelling about themselves. Every week I spend my …
Why does quitting your job make it more enjoyable?
Why do people have the best days of their jobs when they’ve just quit? And what can it tell us about how we relate to work? Every week I spend my days …
Management & Leadership as Slow-Motion facilitation
Instead of thinking you have to become a business suit as a design leader, what if you think about management and leadership as slow-motion facilitation, using …
Starting at the End + Avoiding Pointless Meetings
Every week I spend my days coaching design leaders. In these videos, I reflect upon common themes and questions that came up. This week, getting started by …
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