Author: Kearny
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Superstars versus Rockstars
Fostering both professional growth and personal growth to build a balanced team. If you’ve read my Top 5: Leadership Books, you already know that my number one is Kim Scott’s Radical Candor. Her overarching thesis is that for and your team to succeed professionally, you must care about each other personally. Doing so allows for a substantially more productive feedback cycle,…
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Recording Your Own Classes (on a Mac)
How do we improve our team from home? Record your own classes! On occasion, I have recorded my own classes for my teammates on effective communication. I had a lot of fun learning how to do it and was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to do with a modern laptop in your home.…
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My Top 5: Movies
Something on the lighter side for a change. After a week of heavy topics, I thought it was worth looking at something more fun: my top five favorite movies of all time. Before you judge, keep in mind that these aren’t necessarily the best movies, and they don’t mean that I can’t enjoy completely unrelated films. What…
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COVID-19 and Threat Modeling
Stop trying to eliminate or ignore risk; take necessary risks smartly. 2020 has been a wild ride so far! An entire continent caught on fire, every two weeks we dodge another world war, the market crashed, and of course… a global pandemic. It’s easy to choose between one of two options: Shut down completely and disinfect…
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Observations: Dare to Lead
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.” – President Franklin D. Roosevelt Lessons Learned is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.…
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Teleworking is Hard
Whoever thought working from home was easy never listened to that stay-at-home parent. How do we prevent teleworking burnout? Let’s face it: teleworking sounds amazing. Roll out of bed late, leisurely enjoy your breakfast and coffee, get in some exercise, and get to work. Finish up early and still have plenty of time to catch…
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The Eisenhower Box
“What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.” – President Dwight D. Eisenhower President Dwight D. Eisenhower was an incredibly productive man. Over the course of his life, in addition to serving two terms as the 34th President of our country, he also served as General of the Army (the rare five-star general)…
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Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose
Why Daniel Pink is on to something with his 2011 book, Drive. In 2011, Daniel Pink published a great book titled, Drive, which discusses the numerous ways that people are driven in life, their profession, and their passions. His fundamental thesis was that there are three primary elements that contribute to our personal and professional satisfaction: the…
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Personal Blog: Switching Things Up!
Same old blogger, brand new platform. Those who have known me for awhile know that I enjoy tinkering, sharing what I learn, and writing. Since 2014 I have maintained a personal blog, though I fell off from updating it in 2018. Why? It started as another tinkering project. I claimed digital squatters rights on domain…
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My Top 5: Leadership Books
Here is a list of the top five books that have made me a better leader. While I have read a lot of books that I can claim have reshaped my problem-solving and leadership approaches, these are the top five that I like to recommend to my teammates. Some of these I have been reading…
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The Starfish, the Spider, and Security
Internet security lessons we can learn from both spiders and starfish. I was recently gifted an interesting book, The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations, by Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom by a fellow Airman who (I think) hoped to encourage and empower more independent action among others against the grain…
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Radio: The Mazda Needs a Radio
Amateur radio installations are the core of every good family sedan, right? So last June I decided that my MINI Cooper S needed another radio, however within the last few months my MINI and I decided to have a breakup. Sad, I know, but the family was starting to outgrow the backseat of our family Volkswagen…