December 17, 2020
Nobody “wants” to do the boring work, and yet there it is, always piling up, never going anywhere, until you sit down and start working through the pile. That’s how it works. It doesn’t go anywhere. It doesn’t ask for help. It just sits and waits. Until you do the work to get it done and move onto the next thing. OR, until you figure out a way to get past it being boring, make it valuable, make it important and worthwhile. Than it’s no longer boring work.
December 16, 2020
Not your customer, not your manager, not you, but your team, needs to ship. They need to see their work get out there. They need to see people using it in their hands. They need to hear the pain of users. They need to understand what people are seeing and how they are using. More than anything, they need that achievement, no matter if they crossed the finish the line at a gingerly pace or whether it was a mad dash to cross over, they need to have that feeling that they accomplished something and got it into a place
December 15, 2020
In a time of everyone being remote, you can still inspire. It’s not as easy, but it can be done. The last however many years you’ve been leading have all been on site, with your team completely beside you, but now, no longer the case, you are separated and not always by choice. On the latest episode of Remotely Prepared we talk about this important issue especially as we head into a new year. Take a listen.
December 14, 2020
Is the ability to see your own mistakes. And then taking the action to do something about them. But the hard part is the first step. (Overheard while listening to the course material available here).
December 13, 2020
Whatever you have coming up in the week, take a look at what it is and plan it out for the week. But we don’t want to do that, because the prep is hard. There is a reason why prepared meals are so popular, because they do the hard work and all we have to do is the assembly. Once you know what you’re doing, the assembly is easy.
