This month we dive into the tricky topic of dealing with jerks.

Eric Williamson teaches us some tricks for dealing with difficult people. More importantly, of course, he sheds some light on how to not be difficult people ourselves.

I hope you enjoy listening in on this conversation as much as Eric and I did having it.

Just for some background, Eric is a professional development consultant, business coach and keynote speaker. He is the author of the book, How to Work with Jerks: Getting Stuff Done with People you Can’t Stand, and co-author of the best-selling book, When Work Works: Cutting Edge Solutions for the Contemporary Workplace. He has over two decades of professional development experience, speaking, and most importantly, real-life, hands on in-the trenches business experience in both the private and public sectors. He works with organizations to build more collaborative and harmonious workplace environments by building stronger customer and workplace relationships.

(Brené Brown book mentioned in the podcast: Dare To Lead)

While you might have seen this month’s topic - “Maximizing Innovation” - on corporate motivational posters, we assure you that we go deep in this month’s podcast to uncover exactly how we can win in this arena.

The phrase we like, “Building more cool, useful stuff” maybe says it more aptly. Whatever words you use though - a central part of software development is simply to figure out how we create the most value, the most usefulness for our customer.

So please join us as and listen along we dig into this important topic!

Improving in the art of software development can be intimidating. With this month’s episode we dive quickly into the basic algorithm that we’ve used repeatedly to realize powerful improvement on software teams!