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On Aperture, Digital Photography and Leadership
For my 10th year wedding anniversary gift for my wife, I’ve decided to give her a Nikon D5100 DSLR camera with the intention of diving in to digital photography myself. As I was going thru and testing...
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Before and After: A Way To Measure Your Growth
I’m a big fan of personal development and growth. Which is why I am dedicated to lifelong learning and continuous growth and help individuals and organizations do the same thing. But in order to...
View ArticleLeadership Starts At Home
I’m seeing myself responding to blog posts more often that I get to create content in the process. This time, it was a guest post on Michael Hyatt’s blog on leadership from Kelly Combs (blog |...
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Searching For A Deeper Purpose In Your Work
Image courtesy of FreeDigitalImages.net A story was told about three bricklayers working side by side. When asked, ‘What are you doing?’, the first bricklayer replied: ‘I’m laying bricks.’ The second...
View ArticleHow Much Did Your Word Cost? Or Earned?
“We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.” -Abraham Lincoln- We live in a society where it’s easy to just forget about what we promised – customer...
View ArticleThe Pen and Paper in the Digital Age of Social Media
I wanted to start this blog post with a reference to a TED Talk by Hannah Brencher about love letters to strangers. If you can’t see this video in your RSS reader or email, then click here. In an...
View ArticleIntentionally Ignoring the Inessential
I’ve skipped a couple of weeks of blog posts in preparation for my presentations at SQL Server Live last week in Orlando. Hopefully, I’ll be able to make up for the lost time. I don’t want to claim...
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Leadership Lessons from Driving in the UK
Right-hand drive by EdwinMSarmiento I have been privileged to be invited as a speaker in the last SQLBits conference held in Nottingham, UK earlier this month. I have to admit that I was pretty...
View ArticleThat Awkward Feeling Of Being A Noob
Have you ever tried using your left hand to write if you’re right-handed? Or maybe tried driving on the right side of the road? Recall the first time you’ve tried riding a bicycle or learned how to...
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Compassionate Capitalism as some may call it
In a world where capitalism focuses more on profits and revenues, others may think making a difference is totally out of the picture. I was reading about TOMS Shoes and how the company started out as...
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