October 26, 2021
If you want to have good results from a meeting, you need to put the good preparation into one to make it a success. And this goes for everyone in the meeting – presenter, attendees, listeners – if any of those people don’t come prepared for the meeting – there is no point in them attending. What’s the first ingredient that goes into a good meeting? People.
October 25, 2021
Chasing stats is a good short-term victory. It means changing what you do and what you care about to get some quick wins. It means redirecting people and resources to achieve those quick points that put a win in the column. The problem is, if you keep chasing stats in the short-term, your long-term strategy starts to fall apart, it starts to fail and break simply because you don’t have one. You’ve been too busy chasing stats and wins and missed the bigger picture.
October 24, 2021
Is that everyone is on the same page. You can’t go beyond that. If you have a full day planned and no one can get past that initial concept, don’t go further, you can’t go further, there is no point in going further because no one agrees where they should be going to. The goal is to figure out a plan for X and if you don’t know X, there is no point in moving towards something that is definitely not X.
October 23, 2021
Code is constantly changing. I can spend 2 minutes on Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube and find new frameworks and approaches to building a career than I ever could at any time in history. And yet we still push back against learning. What are we doing wrong and what is holding us back?
October 22, 2021
Teams don’t just work and they don’t just magically come together. It takes work and time. As soon as I see an email that ends with “let’s do this as a team” – I know there is something wrong, that the bridge isn’t there and this is a half-hearted attempt to deal with the problem. Building bridges between teams is not easy but if you’re writing your team announcements or motivation quotes in an email. You’re not even close to starting to build that bridge.
