Podcasts by Sh*t I Learned The Hard Way

SILTHW - E17 - Understanding Business Risk and Technical Risk from 2020-12-18T16:00

Understanding Business Risk and Technical Risk

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If we have learned anything in 2020 it is that business risk outweighs technical risk. Noti...

SILTHW - E16 - How to Measure Performance - Personal Edition from 2020-11-30T17:37:34

How to Measure Performance - Personal Edition

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Performance measurement feels like something that belongs in the business and sports world....

SILTHW - E15 - How to Measure Performance - Business Edition from 2020-11-19T19:11:04

How to Measure Performance - Business Edition

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There are tons of resources on measuring performance. So why do so many businesses get it w...

SILTHW - E14 - 3 Ways to Identify the Leaders in Your Organization from 2020-11-04T16:36:58

3 Ways to Identify the Leaders in Your Organization

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If we know the characteristics of a leader, why are there so many executives and managers t...

SILTHW - E13 - Two skills that are holding you back professionally from 2020-10-27T18:40:23

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E13 - Two skills that are holding you back professionally  

Do you have a great idea? Something meaningful to say? Something groundb...

SILTHW - E12 - Help people value and respect their coworkers (Culture Part 3) from 2020-10-21T17:56:51

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E12 - Help people value and respect their coworkers (Culture Part 3)  

People that get along with others are productive people. Peop...

SILTHW - E11 - Help People Love and Trust the Organization (Culture Part 2) from 2020-10-12T19:16:27

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Episode 11 - Help People Love and Trust the Organization

Part of loving your job is having love and trust in the organization you wok for. But ...

SILTHW - E10 - Help people excel at their job (Culture Part 1) from 2020-10-07T21:12:50

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Episode 10 - Help people excel at their job (Culture Part 1)

In the last episode I introduced a model for organizational culture. It starts wit...

SILTHW - Behind the Scenes 1 - People-Centric Culture from 2020-10-07T19:17:37

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SILTHW VLOG 2 - Why People-Centric Culture - Behind the Scenes  I

n this episode I go behind the scenes and talk a bit about the thi...

SILTHW - E9 - Ways to improve corporate culture (INTRO) from 2020-09-23T19:04:57

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Episode 9 - Ways to Improve Corporate Culture (Intro)

If you can't define it, you can't fix it. And "Corporate Culture" is really hard to define....

SILTHW - E8 - Assessing Maturity vs Assessing Gap from 2020-09-18T19:43:53

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Episode 8 - Assessing Maturity vs Assessing Gap

Assessing maturity (vs Assessing gap) has become a sales and marketing tool. Sadly,...

SILTHW - E7 - The Mentor - Mentee Relationship from 2020-09-09T17:00

Sh*t I Learned the Hard Way (SILTHW) Episode 7 - The Mentor - Mentee Relationship!  The core of a mentor-mentee relationship is the trust built between the two parties. In this episode, I'm...

SILTHW - E6 - Offering an Opinion with Self Confidence vs Ego from 2020-09-03T18:23:08

This episode is about offering an opinion that people want to hear, being confident in your opinion, and not getting your ego hurt when people don't listen to your opinion. 

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SILTHW - E5 - You don't need an IT strategy from 2020-08-26T17:00

There is corporate strategy. There is IT strategy. One of them is important. The other isn't. I've often been asked to help companies create a digital transformation strategy. But most companies...

SILTHW - E4 - TTI shut all employees out of their desktops from 2020-08-19T20:15:43

Well, the channel is about lessons hard learned, so here is one. I once shut every employee of a big 3 automaker out of their systems. For about 30 minutes. You see I failed at both change manag...

SILTHW - E3 - You don't know who your stakeholders are! from 2020-08-11T20:26:59

In this episode of Sh*t I Learned the Hard Way - If you are working on  an IT project and feel like someone on the Information Technology team  is your stakeholder, either your project...

SILTHW - E2 - Why Failure is Critical from 2020-08-07T19:49:40

On this episode of Sh*t I learned the Hard Way - Failure sucks! Or does  it? Learning to fail well is a life skill most people have failed (ha!)  to master. And mastering it can mean t...

SILTHW - E1 - Motivation vs Discipline from 2020-08-07T00:28:14

In this episode of Sh*t I Learned the Hard Way I talk about Motivation  vs Discipline, a frequently discussed subject. But rather than defining  the two concepts, I talk about how to a...