Category: I Effed Up

As a creative and creative team lead, I value, respect, and admire functional expertise. There’s nothing more exciting than working with a rock star designer, copywriter, video editor, you name it. Unfortunately, I conflated technical and creative expertise with management and leadership acumen. After promoting a number of these talented experts from individual contributor roles…

I admit it, I have an ego. Maybe this isn’t a bad thing when it comes to taking risks, challenging authority, and thinking I can contribute something to my community, but it sure is unattractive and counterproductive when it comes to effectively leading a team. It would show up the most for me when I…

It’s probably too obvious to state out loud, but clients can be maddening. Actually, let’s be real, they can really piss us off. I have to fess up and say that I wasn’t beyond trashing a client with colleagues or at least with my wife and often my dog. It took me longer than it…