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If you work with other people, and especially if you mean to lead a team, and are not yet familiar with Rypple, I recommend setting aside time to get oriented and start using it a.s.a.p.!

They are curating a great online resource of archived 'Leadership Webinars', epic leadership tips from the likes of David Allen, Tony Hsieh, Dan Pink and more. Here's the link. Now go, enjoy a more successful and rewarding future.

Napoleon Hill — esteemed author of Think and Grow Rich!, one of the best-selling books of all time — is pretty much the granddaddy of modern personal success and achievement literature. In this video, Hill speaks about his fateful meeting with Dale Carnegie, and recounts the story of the sealed envelopes each of us is given at birth: one labeled "Riches", the other "Penalties"...

I just today discovered the Web Standards Sherpa project...

The magnitude, frequency, and spectacularness of our failures are the best indicators of the magnitude, frequency, and spectacularness of our successes!

Really enjoyed reading this juicy devops+kanban post from globe-trotting management consultant, David J. Anderson (@agilemanager)... here's a [juicy] excerpt!

"The DevOps movement appears to be striving towards the patterns in Systems Thinking expressed by W. Edwards Deming. It’s about understanding the system as a whole instead of only looking at the bits and pieces. It’s about work flowing across functions instead of stagnating in silos. It’s about respect and trust amongst individuals doing the work instead of management-driven command and control."

Didn't I say it was juicy?... it's organizational leadership p*rn for technology organizations!