“If the machines are doing the routine work, then humans must do the non-routine work. To be an innovator, you need to talk about unsolved, important problems.” – University of Waterloo Professor, Larry Smith Last night I joined two former colleagues,…
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What’s Your Problem? A talk by Larry Smith.
Tagged with: AlphaGo, automation, Dan Deeth, Don Bowman, economics, entrepreneurship, innovation, JK Rowling, Larry Smith, machine learning, marketing automation, Moravec's Paradox, Problem Lab, problem solving, problems, Steve Jobs, Tim Ferriss, University of Waterloo, Velocity, Walt Disney
Posted in Careers, Leadership
Posted in Careers, Leadership
What not to do in the workplace – a handy-dandy top 10 list
“Whether it’s your first co-op work term or you’ve been earning a paycheque for decades, there are certain common mistakes that should be avoided at all costs.” The Fall 2016 edition of the University of Waterloo Magazine included a feature…
Tagged with: arrogance, complacency, initiative, professionalism, risk management, social media, tips and tricks, University of Waterloo
Posted in Careers, Everything, Management
Posted in Careers, Everything, Management
Competitive and Market Intelligence: Leadership, Strategy, and Innovation
“The military are excellent planners; the private sector are great at execution. There are strengths and limitations of both paradigms, and we can learn so much by talking to each other.” – Retired Maj. Gen. David Fraser At last night’s Communitech…
Looking Past Failure
“You know what? If an applicant has a strong enough application, then one blotch shouldn’t automatically eliminate him or her from consideration. There might well have been extenuating circumstances … and, in any case, it gives you something to talk about…
Demos Must Work
Surely that’s obvious, right? Well, you’d be surprised. Unless, of course, you’ve tried to give a demo and had it fail miserably…then, naturally, you won’t be surprised at all.
Tagged with: Computer Engineering, demo kitten, demonstrations, HQers, travel, University of Waterloo
Posted in Marketing
Posted in Marketing
Growing your career with the adjacent possible
Just because you don’t know where you’re ultimately going doesn’t mean you can’t start poking around. I didn’t know where I was going, but it was no accident that I’ve arrived. I started my career in technology as a “Quality Assurance…
My Strategies for Maximizing Impact
I’ve had a lot of conversations lately about productivity. The conversations have started in a few different ways (e.g., “How can we get the biggest return on marketing?”, “I’m having trouble deciding what to work on.”, “I have too much on…
Tagged with: impact, productivity, strategies, University of Waterloo, UW
Posted in Leadership, Management
Posted in Leadership, Management
My Story, Part 2: Challenge Accepted
The journey was long and tough, but that made me stronger. Not once in my professional career have I faced anything that has even remotely stressed me out the way that UW did. [This is the third of a series…
Tagged with: academics, Canadian Space Agency, challenges, Computer Engineering, Duong Tran, ECE 100, fear of failure, Lee Brooks, mechatronics, my story, presentations, University of Waterloo, UW
Posted in Careers, Everything
Posted in Careers, Everything
Social Networking for Professionals (for Academics)
A little over a month ago I received an email from my friend Stacey: “We are looking for a speaker for our biomechanics graduate seminar to speak on social networking in a professional setting and/or internet presence for researchers in…
Tagged with: biomechanics, Dan Deeth, Facebook, Google Plus, Johnny Lee, Lee Brooks, LinkedIn, Meetup, presentations, public speaking, social media, social networking, Stacey Acker, Twitter, University of Waterloo
Posted in Careers, Everything, Marketing
Posted in Careers, Everything, Marketing
My Story, Part 1: The Accidental Engineer
It turns out that if you make your university choices for reasons other than passionate interest and enrol in what can accurately be described as a hellishly difficult program while completely lacking any study skills or positive work habits whatsoever,…
Tagged with: adversity, Dana Porter Library, education, engineering, ENSS, failure, Lee Brooks, MacLean's, my story, presentations, public speaking, The Big Apple, University of Waterloo, UW
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Posted in Everything
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