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How to Improve Your Coding Skills: Tips and Advice

Do you want to level up your programming game? How do programming professionals manage to keep up with the fast pace of the industry? The tech industry moves a fast space and so should you. If you aren’t continually improving your existing skills and learning new ones, you’ll soon lose touch with the cutting edge, be unprepared for change, and narrow your resume. Keep reading for expert tips on how to improve your coding skills, according to programming veteran and author of The Clean Coder Robert C. Martin.

Brené Brown’s Guidepost #9: Use Your Talents and Gifts

How can you use your talents and gifts to their fullest? What if you can’t find a career that plays to your talents? What are the barriers that get in the way of using your talents? In a society where prestige and money are valued, it can be tempting to choose a career that makes you look good rather than one that uses your talents and makes you happy. That’s why using your talents is the ninth guidepost for Wholehearted living. Learn why using your talents will bring you more happiness than

Peter Drucker’s 3-Step Time Management Method

What does Peter Druker have to say on time management? How does his time management approach differ from the more conventional methods? Peter Drucker’s time management approach consists of three steps: 1) analyze your time, 2) cut time-wasters, and 3) time block. This advice is different from what other time management books recommend in that it begins with analyzing how you currently spend your time. We’ll explore each of these steps and how they continue to be applied today.

Peter Drucker: The Rise of Knowledge Workers

Are we living in the age of a knowledge worker? What type of work is considered “knowledge work”? Knowledge workers as those who use the knowledge acquired through formal education to produce results—in other words, people who think for a living. According to Peter Drucker, knowledge workers are, in effect, executives because, whether or not they supervise others, they make the same types of decisions as managers as opposed to following orders. Read about the rise of the knowledge worker and its implications for the economy at large.

What Is a Strength-Based Management Approach?

What is strength-based management? How can you maximize the strength of your employees to boost the performance of your organization? Strength-based management is a management style that is focused on the strengths of the employees. According to management consultant Peter Drucker, maximizing strengths —your own strengths and the strengths of those around you—is more effective than trying to fix weaknesses. Here is why to increase the effectiveness of your organization, it’s important to build the strengths of those around you, as well as your own.

Peter Drucker: Contribution Equals Results

What unique contribution do you offer to your organization? How does your contribution improve the performance of the business? Your job as an executive is to determine your contribution to the organization’s performance and results and to maximize it. According to management consultant Peter Drucker, contribution should be focused outward—that is, on what you can offer, as opposed to what you can get. In his book The Effective Executive, Drucker outlines several ways in which you can focus your contribution outwardly.

Black Hole Entropy: Stephen Hawking’s Discovery

What’s entropy like inside a black hole? And how do we know that black holes have entropy in the first place? Jacob Bekenstein suggested that the area of a black hole was itself a measurement of its entropy. But if black holes had entropy, they would have to emit radiation (which was thought impossible at the time). In 1973, Stephen Hawking ran calculations that showed that black holes would indeed create and emit particles. Keep reading to learn more about black hole entropy.

How to Find Mentorship: Advice for Women

Why is it harder to find mentorship for women? Can women succeed without a mentor? While men have an easy time finding and maintaining mentorship, for women, it is much more difficult to come by. But having a mentor is critical for career progression. Here is why to find mentorship, women need to take a different approach than men.

Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg: Book Overview

Is Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In worth reading? What are the main factors, according to the author, that prevent women from seeking leadership roles? Lean In, by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, explores the professional, personal, and societal hurdles holding women back from leadership roles. To get more women into leadership positions and make true changes, Sandberg urges women to “lean in” to their careers, taking risks and being ambitious in their professional goals, while demanding more help at home. Here is a brief overview of Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg.

Employee Growth Isn’t Just About Climbing the Ladder

Do you think leaders should help their employees climb up the career ladder? What are some ways you can help your employees grow in their careers? Employees want to develop and grow in their careers. But employee growth doesn’t necessarily need to be a rise up the rank. Here is why employee growth isn’t always about rising through the ranks.