How to Manage Your Career: Part 4
If you look at a bird making a nest, you see that it knows how to make the nest instinctively. It doesn’t have to go to nest-making school to know how to make a nest. Although the nest itself can be quite elaborate and splendid, the bird only knows how to make that...
How to Manage Your Career: Part 3
The First Half of the Journey (Stages 1 and 2) In the two previous posts, we discussed the two stages of the first half of the career: taking responsibility for oneself (Stage 1) and taking responsibility for others (Stage 2). Those who have navigated these two stages...
How to Manage Your Career: Part 2
One of the most difficult training regimens is the BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL) training for Navy SEALs. In the first phase of training, trainees are subjected to an event called “Hell Week”, which consists of 5 1/2 days of cold, wet, brutally difficult...
How to Manage Your Career: Part 1
Each Sunday, I take some time to talk a walk outside to be with my own thoughts for a while. Being away from the grind, it’s when a lot of ideas and insights come to me. In Utah where I live, there are mountains all around, and I often go on hikes in these mountains....