August 7, 2019
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.
August 5, 2019
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 sitting down with your group, when they first start dividing up work is to say – “I’ll do it.” – well then you’ve set the
August 2, 2019
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 them take the easy way out. If they refuse, time to find someone that wants to invest in who you are to make you better.
August 1, 2019
It’s your approach to achieving those results. It’s not about the steps, its your mindset in accomplishing those steps that are hurting you. Anyone can look back at the steps that someone took to accomplish “something”, but within each of those steps, is a desire, a drive, a fuel, a yearning, a challenge, sweat, fearlessness. That’s where our problems lie, in the steps.
July 30, 2019
If I can, I will take the long road back after a customer trip. The whole, hassle to get there, rush, rush with barely a moment to catch our breaths does nothing for me. I don’t get to think about the customer visits that just took place. I don’t get to think about what comes next and how we should attack it. I don’t get to focus on what needs to be done and what can wait. I don’t get to do any of it and that’s why the long road back can be better then the quick flight forward.
