by Dwayne Phillips Just because you have a tool in your toolkit doesn’t mean you know what to do with it. Tools tools tools. Everyone in the tech world has lots of tools. If you don’t have a list of tools on your resume, you aren’t hired. Let’s go through some obvious things: Just because […]
Tools and Abilities
January 21st, 2018 · No Comments
Tags: Certification · Competence · Concepts · Technology
The Opposite of Synergy—Yet Another Example
April 13th, 2017 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Often, the individual members of a group don’t understand what the group has decided. This is wonderful. I found a discussion online where persons who care about words were trying to invent a word for the opposite of synergy. No one suggested the obvious—the US Congress. Politics aside, or maybe politics of […]
Tags: Communication · Competence · Decide
The Free Solution
September 15th, 2016 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Designers design solutions. The most despised solution a designer can design is often the one that is free. Designers design solutions to problems. In today’s employment vocabulary, designers are called Solutions Architects. (I find that title an insult to architects and the English language, but that is just me. Anyways…) For this […]
Tags: Competence · Design · Uncategorized
Not a Good Fit – Part 2
September 12th, 2016 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips The second major explanation of what “not a good fit” means. Now for the second explanation (the first was in the immediately preceding post). This explanation is a bit more complex. Basically, it is the interviewing organization is mismanaged, a.k.a., they don’t know what they are doing. The interviewing organization is overworked. […]
Tags: Competence · Culture · Integrity · Management
A Big Step to Higher Quality
September 1st, 2016 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips There is a simple step that will push you and yours to produce better goods and services. Want higher quality? Want people to delight in your products? Want to accomplish these and other quality improvement goals without spending any money? Yes, yes, and Y E S! Here it is: Put you name […]
Tags: Competence · Integrity · Management
Show Some Respect
August 18th, 2016 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Okay, I’m an old man. Nevertheless, can persons in the workplace show some respect to one another? As I write this, I remain unemployed. There is always hope for a 50-something with a few job skills (advanced degrees, certifications, books published, etc.), but it is tough. One request for those interviewing the […]
Tags: Competence · Employment · Respect
YAC – Yet Another Certification
July 7th, 2016 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips I receive yet another certification. I just passed yet another exam and received yet another certification. Contrary to advertisements, the exam was full of trick questions and didn’t test knowledge of the subject matter. Nevertheless, that is the certification industry, and it is a big $$$ indu$try. I find it a shame […]
Tags: Certification · Competence · Education · Learning
Is This a Job Interview or a Consulting Session?
March 3rd, 2016 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips I have been interviewed for jobs several dozen times in the last three years. Most “interviews” became free consulting sessions. The past three years have not been good for me and working at paying jobs. I am over age and over qualified. At least I soothe my feelings by telling myself these […]
Tags: Communication · Competence · Consulting · Employment · Expectations · Greed
Apologies
December 10th, 2015 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips We never have time to to it right, but we always have time to do it again. The summary above is an old cliche or common sense or something. The trouble with common sense is that it is usually common sense and rarely common practice. (Is that another cliche?) Gosh. How many […]
Tags: Communication · Competence · Excuses
Being Everyone’s Dad
October 26th, 2015 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Too often, some of us take on the role of caretaker of everyone around us, i.e., we try to e everyone’s dad. Such is folly. Sometimes, people are struggling at work. No problem. I will step in and H E L P them. I will take care of the problems that seem […]
Tags: Adults · Competence · Family · Management