Monday, December 28, 2015

How To Spend Your Last Week of 2015

It's here! The last and final week of the year 2015. If you work in a corporate environment, chances are your office looks a little like a ghost town this week. When I was younger, I used to love working the last week of the year as the general office drama was lower than any other point, and I could focus and get some things done. But what to do? As the clock winds down, try a few of these activities over the next couple of days.

Friday, December 25, 2015

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! I hope you are having a wonderful week! For the past 36 hours or so, I hope you have been following along with my Christmas Playlist over at Twitter (just search for #CameronsChristmasPlaylist).

So, what are you getting for Christmas? Are you getting yourself a little something to go along with the gifts to others?

I've read a few folks lately talking about the "greatest gift you can give yourself" and, honestly, it's true.

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Happy Holidays! And a Christmas Bonus

Happy Holidays! December has been a bit of a crazy month, and I'll admit, you haven't heard all that much from me on the blog here. But I thought I would take a little bit of time and thank you for following me on this crazy experiment this year, and wish you and your family a happy holiday season, whether you are celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or another holiday.

Friday, December 11, 2015

Hosting a Professional Conference

I spent a large portion of last week at Gartner's Application Architecture, Development and Integration Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada. The conference contained three days of in depth content around Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Development, Microservices and API Management, and more. But rather than dive into the technical details, which I may write about later, I thought I would point out a few hallmarks of the conference that really made it smooth and helpful for the attendees. In the event you ever need to put together an event like this, see if any of these lessons from the best might be helpful.

Friday, December 4, 2015

Don't Threaten the King and Other Medieval Lessons from Game of Thrones

Evidently, I am going to have to wait until April to watch the next season of Game of Thrones, but in the meantime, I can still theorize on how the complex social interactions it portrays could be interpreted in a business sense.

While (hopefully) no one literally gets their head chopped off at your office, even the most open environments have some levels of politics at play. People have desires and ambitions, and sometimes those wants can cause behavior reminiscent of medieval fiefdoms. So how can you navigate the landscape?