Whether it’s the first day of a new month or last day of the previous month you need a reset. Not a week long vacation in the Turks and Caicos, but a one-hour conversation with yourself where you ask the following questions. What did I accomplish? What worked? What didn’t work? Where did I go wrong? Where did I go right? What do I need to repeat? What do I need to tweak? What do…
When trying to solve a complex problem and people want less information on the solution. When everyone is saying “Yes” to everything you are saying. When there have been no changes to a problem, but the code starts to work. When the requirements change, but no one knows. When people start saying “it should just work”. Those are the moments when you should start getting worried, not because something could go wrong but because it…
As a leader, you know there is much more work to accomplish than your time will permit. So does your team. If you’ve done things correctly in setting up and leading your team then you’ll know it when you are sitting down for your regular team meeting and you pull out the list of work to do, taking tasks for yourself only to have members of your team jump in and take them for you.…
Being “On” all the time is a very hard thing to do. I would go so far as to say no one can really do it. We all have our bad days where we are not as chipper as we would like to be. We don’t make the best use of our social media interactions. We snip and snap at people a little more brusquely than we normally would have. Perhaps we are angry, frustrated…
It’s not always the big, over, life changing gestures that make things happen, sometimes it’s the small ones that can have the biggest impact. https://everydaypowerblog.com/2017/08/09/focusing-on-small-things/