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Impatience: The anger you feel when the computer is being lazy. This makes you write programs that don't just react to your needs, but actually anticipate them. Or at least pretend to.

In today's episode, Skip fights through a cold and talks with Adam about using the 3rd great virtue, which can put you in a bad spot with clients or accelerate your growth!

Hubris: The quality that makes you write (and maintain) programs that other people won't want to say bad things about.

This extends to so much of your professional life, Do things well for your clients that they brag about what you do.

In this episode, Skip and Adam talk about how having excessive pride has helped the engineering world evolve and how it can help your clients succeed.

Laziness: The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure.

Everyone has blind spots, do you know yours? How can you find out and what is the cost of having blind spots?

In this episode seasoned veterans Adam and Skip talk through blindspots and how egos get in the way as well as how to sort them out so you can continuously grow.

This coming week marks the beginning of the end of the year. Since it is a 2-day holiday it kills the week and bleeds into the Christmas season. So what can you do with this knowledge?

In this episode, Skip and Adam talk through the opportunities that the holiday season brings and some tips and tricks on how to make the most of the chaos through the end of the year!

Culture is often ignored when it comes to tech companies. What kind of culture are you creating? What kind of culture to you want to foster among your staff? If you are not deliberate you are leaving one of the most important aspects of your company up to fate.

Find out how to set culture and what the advantages are in this insightful episode!

Mike Giovaninni and Adam Walter will be giving a talk at 4:00 Friday November 10th at IT Nation connect. This podcast is a preview of that talk and how you can effectively step into a CIO or CISO role to do a risk assessment with a versitile tool...the SWOT.

Have you been told you need to be a better listener? Well so have we, well 'We' actually means Adam. So, how do you listen better, what does it look like to listen well and what are the results of those 'conversations'. In this episode, Adam and Skip talk through how to recognize when you are being a bad listener vs a good one.

October is an odd month, it seems so simple and easy, just one holiday at the end of the month. So why is it always so chaotic?

In this episode, Skip and Adam talk through the reasons why Octobers are so chaotic and how we can avoid it.