You can apply for the job and not get it. You can read all the books and not pass the test. You can take the course and fail. It doesn’t mean you can’t do it? It doesn’t mean you can’t lead your own way? It doesn’t mean you can’t try again. Not being Official doesn’t mean you’re not good enough, it means there’s another path that you’re meant to take.
No one ever said the game was cut it stone. You MUST do this job before taking that role. You MUST work here before you can work there. You MUST learn this before doing that. You MUST go to this school before applying there. You MUST take this course before you can think of starting that program. The game is yours to play and yours to change the rules on. Change is what make the…
Otherwise we never know what the look like. What it takes to get over them. What it feels like to pick ourselves up. We need them on the small ideas, the little experiments, the failures we celebrate internally, so when they happen to the team, the big adventures, the huge unknowns – we are ready for them. Hitting bumps isn’t bad, not knowing what to do when you do hit them is.
It doesn’t matter what setting you are in, when the Instructor, organizer, teacher, whatever, tells you to get into groups we all have the same responses… “Great, now my mark isn’t my own.” “I’m going to end up doing anything?” “I don’t have time for this.” Those are the negative responses to having to work with people we have either preconceived notions of or experiences from in the past. But if your first response to…
Are the easy way out during review time. They are the feedback that makes you feel good for a short period of time but that accomplishes nothing to your growth and development. They get the reviewer out of a jam by making you happy (maybe providing a raise) with having undertaken little to no work to help you grow into the next year, cycle or project. If you receive one, ask for more, don’t let…