by Jonathan | Jun 10, 2019 | Leadership
“No. You don’t understand. It’s a masters degree. It will make you so much more employable.” The old man who didn’t appear to be purchasing anything was making his case to the young woman behind the counter. She didn’t appear to be...
by Jonathan | May 31, 2019 | Leadership
Here’s what I want to better understand during an interview: Are we aligned? Your experience is fine. Wherever you went to college is fine. Your references are (probably) fine. Your skills are fine. All of that is fine because you made it into this room. Now,...
by Jonathan | May 30, 2019 | Leadership
Characters in (good) movies have an arc. An arc simply means the character starts out one way and then, in reaction to experience, changes. The key to an arc is the concept of change. As it goes for fictitious characters, so it goes for us. Each of us is on an arc of...
by Jonathan | May 29, 2019 | Leadership
Infinity War started playing on my Netflix again (I don’t know how that happened!). And, while watching the scene with Starlord (Chris Pratt) and Thor (Chris Hemsworth) I was reminded of something Pratt said a while back. An interviewer asked him about his...
by Jonathan | May 28, 2019 | Leadership
I made a comment to a coworker today about creating a “farm team” for our company. This weekend I watched my FIRST EVER (!) professional soccer game. Way better than I thought it was going to be. The team I was watching was the feeder team for the Seattle...
