by Louis Gerzofsky | Mar 10, 2017 | Careers
The world will always need people who know they have a job to do. One nail in the wall after another. One parking ticket issued after another. One piece of code written after another. Getting things done and going home before starting all over the next day. Those who...
by Louis Gerzofsky | Mar 9, 2017 | Work-Life
Simone Weil, French philosopher and member of the Resistance wrote the following: “Attention is the purest and rarest form of generosity.” Attention and Generosity. Two scarce commodities. Attention is something that we only give in the presence of someone...
by Louis Gerzofsky | Mar 8, 2017 | Work-Life
What is the ‘account’ that we draw from when a family member or friend or work colleague needs our advice? How do we craft an answer that comes from our heart and represents our best shot at helping this person who is afraid or in pain? It has to come from...
by Louis Gerzofsky | Mar 7, 2017 | Careers
Some, perhaps many people happily fantasize about resignation day: “I’m leaving you for a company where my talents and aspirations will finally be appreciated!” (And if ‘company’ is replaced with ‘you’, then it probably serves...
by Louis Gerzofsky | Mar 6, 2017 | Careers
Silicon Valley is famous (or is that notorious?) for its 10X engineers. Those are the legendary few who create 10 times the value of the other engineers, enabling little start-ups with the super powers they need to take on the giants and disrupt them into oblivion....
