It’s easy to get flustered by someone next to you that is ripping through the code, their keyboard is on fire and they are knocking off bugs faster than you can open them. Take a piece of paper right now and split it into two sides, with the following headings – “Who Cares?” and “Why does it matter?”. Fill in the one column with the people that really care about speed and the other…
Not the last “I told you so” laugh. Not the last “This is so dumb it’s silly” laugh. Not the last “I got my revenge on you” laugh. No, I’m talking about the last laugh that happens when you and a bunch of your co-workers are sitting around trying to figure out why X is broken you realize it is a semi-colon in your code. I’m talking about the laugh that happens when someone tries…
No one ever got anywhere having a negative approach to the problem. The other team has much faster coders. If we had their tools, we’d be a stronger team. The rules are unfair. They get all the perks and we get nothing. Our timelines are always too tight, we never have enough time. When has being negative to any of those problems ever solved anything? Never right? Change doesn’t happen overnight – you can’t fix…
Are easy to spot. They don’t complain about it. They don’t make excuses for it. They don’t look to their phones for inspiration. They take a moment (because everyone needs one). They figure out what went wrong. They do the work to fix the problem. And they try again with a different approach, different goal and objective. They might fail again, but when they do, they are that much farther than those still complaining and…
You might know them as the “GateKeeper” – the person you need to get past in an Interview to get to the next person on the list – the one you really want to talk to, the one who will really see you for who you really are, the one who knows the trees for the forest of what you are being interviewed for But you have to get through the GateKeeper there so here’s…