July 5, 2024
One chainsaw – consistently starts, is kind of powerful, doesn’t give up, keeps chugging, and needs some maintenance. Another chainsaw – new, strong, has the potential to do a lot, gets temperamental when you don’t position it properly or get the timing of the start wrong. Both do the same thing – cut wood, when you don’t want to be cutting wood because you need to cut wood. Which one are you going with?
July 4, 2024
Communication goes through many people. Along the way, it can become distorted, messages missed, and chaos and confusion ensue, the left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing, and no one is sure what the other is doing. This happens, even with the best of teams, it happens. There is a trap that comes with these blips in communication – more meetings, more checkpoints, more communication – more, more, more – we need to scale the quantity of what we are doing because that will make it better. This is false. The harder discussion is to discuss the quality
July 3, 2024
The secret to catching up. You’re always catching up. You’re always behind. What you learn today, will push you to learn more tomorrow. Focus on the work you’re doing, not the need to catch up, it’s a neverending game and neverending games, never end 🙂
July 2, 2024
What would you do if you stopped doing everything you’re doing now for One week. If you took One week, to fix up your business, your team, and your personal progress. One week to not be tied to a sprint or delivery but to do the things that would push you forward. At my first company, we needed this for a week, we took an old app and spent the week repurposing it into a product. Everyone was focused on nothing but this, all other meetings were pushed out. We started on Monday 8am together and we ended on Friday
July 1, 2024
The next steps only happen if you’re willing to take them. Willing to look for them. Willing to see where they are. Otherwise, they aren’t there, you can’t see them and you don’t know where to go. But make no mistake, any next step taken is 100% yours.
