Some people get lucky, but how the heck can you work at that? Let’s focus on the ways to get promoted that you can control. The following is based on my personal experience of how people get promoted to managerial roles. Following this advice doesn’t guarantee anything, but it will give you the best chance…
Nothing is more valuable than peace of mind. You may have everything in the world you need and want, but if you don’t have peace of mind, you will not be happy. A friend of mine recently told me about a house she is considering buying. It truly is a gorgeous house being built from…
To start, here is the list of what is new between CS5 and CS6: Content-Aware Patch Faster rendering with Liquify and Puppet Warp Some UI improvements Blur Gallery Improved Crop tool Video creation Migration/Sharing thing Adaptive Wide Angle Background Save Auto-recovery Improved auto-corrections Content Aware Move Skin tone aware masking Erodable brushes Layer search vector…
Over the past few years, I have been managing more and more and individually contributing less and less. This is how I scale my value to the company. I train other people to do what I used to do myself so I can get more output more as a department than as an individual worker.…
Lately, I have been working with Product Marketing. It is a fascinating department within a company. I drew a picture of where they sit in the organization. Product Marketing has the role of translating specific product features into more outbound messages. They create messaging “marchitectures” (It’s a play on words, get it?) and frameworks where…
Here is what I imagine was said, “OK, now let’s get your hair combed. Please cross your arms. Now we put the tree picture behind you. Lastly, let’s see a smile. Ok, now keep that smile….wait for it….keep smiling….almost there….oops…one more second.” What is the point of a photo like this? What does the photographer…