Transitioning into a Management Role

Transitioning into a Management Role

I’ve now been with Accenture for 5 years, and it feels I’ve grown more in this past year than in the 4 that preceded. I finally aligned myself to Visual Intelligence & Analytics, led analytics for a technology product at the highest valued company in the world, taught myself 3 new technology skills, and helped expand my team-of-one to a team-of-four. In hindsight, it is easy to summarize all I have done in a single sentence but these results and the growth I have experienced have been the products of a year’s worth of personal and interpersonal development.

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Hidden Gems of the Tenderloin, Beyond Gentrification

Hidden Gems of the Tenderloin, Beyond Gentrification

Its surprising how personal routines & preconceptions can sometimes limit what we experience. Last Friday was a perfect case, with the night starting out similar to any other. 

The plan was to swing by a new dinner spot before heading to a friend’s birthday. I proceeded to find a fresh restaurant near the party, but everything did not go as planned.

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Your Thoughts, Your Property

We can all agree that we want our property to be secure. Burglaries, muggings, & threats from strangers are the things we logically try to avoid when carrying out our day-to-day lives. Similarly, we may fear that our work gets accredited to someone else and we do what we can to be recognized  for our endeavors when its due. In this respect, security does not relate to just our physical assets; it also pertains to our personal contributions.

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Electricity With No Strings Attached

Electricity With No Strings Attached

Little has changed as far as how electricity gets transmitted. Despite all the seemingly magical gizmos and nick-nacks of modern life —cellular phones, PDAs, laptops, etc—what remains anachronistically stuck in the age of Tesla and Edison is the actual means by which we transmit this vital energy. Metal Wire.

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