October 18, 2024
Yeah, yeah, I know – there is always a team that wins. But when you lose… Did you get smarter? Did you get better? Did you get stronger? Did you learn what works and what doesn’t? Did you figure out what you would change for next time? Did you build a team? Did that team survive? You can lose and come out better for it.
October 17, 2024
Biking in the rain is a weird endeavor. One – biking is minimal impact to your body (unless you get hit by a car) so the exercise is good. But biking in the rain can become a miserable experience, you’re soaked, you have to be more careful and it’s hard to see. There is the option to simply not bike, but if you go one way, you have to go the other way to get back. Biking is quite like leading a team or project, when the conditions are perfect, it’s awesome – the sun is shining, you can feel
October 16, 2024
If you’ve had 2 months to work on a project and you started it a week before and now have delays thrown at you or have to wait for others -the waits and the delays are not the problem. Waiting to start was your problem. Not planning out when to begin was your problem. Don’t blame the project on your planning.
October 15, 2024
If you’ve ever spent months, long months, serious months – to finish a project. To get through all the work, the meetings, the politics, the back and forth, the bugs. To see people not use it, or to see the work tossed out, is hard to handle. You put your everything into it for nothing to happen. Sure you learned and gained knowledge, but no one using it, that’s tough. If you haven’t had this happen, it will, if you had had it happen, chin up, the next project is around the corner. And really, that’s it, all you can
October 14, 2024
The Options. What they are, what’s good about them, what’s bad about them – maybe what the cost is? But more importantly, it’s your recommendation – what you think and why. Anyone can come up with options, but a recommendation, a direction, a path – that’s the real reason you’re doing this – because people want to see what you’ll do when given the reigns to lead and move forward with solving a problem. The next question is whether you lead with the recommendation or hold onto it till the end. You lead with it. Ending with it means you’re
