Leading a team is more than following the right powerpoint decks on culture, leadership and team building. It’s about connecting with the people you may or may not have chosen to be with you. It’s about finding the connection between what they want to achieve and what you need the team to deliver. It’s not a simple equation and it’s where many fail – transitioning...
If you want to see change, get a routine, if you want to be change, never break that routine. Once you break it, you’ll need to start all over again. Don’t change the world with your new routine, just change an hour of it, each and every day. And stick to it, the most powerful tool you have at your disposal is to stick with it. Put post it notes everywhere so you never forget to do it...
Of course it does. We start with great intentions, we know where we want to end up, but despite our best efforts, it always gets fuzzy in the middle. Code takes longer to build than what we planned for. Customers have many more questions than we imagined. The team changes a few times during the iteration. Processes need to be reworked to reach our final target. Whatever it is, when we look back...
If you don’t come first are you going to quit? If you are the second best presentation to your client is it time to throw the towel in? If you don’t get the gold star on your code review is it time to look elsewhere because someone is better than you? If you don’t finish your work as fast as someone else should you pack up and go home? Probably not right? You’re still...
We’re going back into the vault, this is the full circle on our previous, previous episode of Interviews. I recently did a talk at a high-school on interviewing and what students need to prepare for. This made me think even more about all the things they are not being taught so I made sure to get them all out in this cast. And – Episode 30 – Milestone! Share this:Click to share...