Whether it’s being a Coach, being a Manager, being a Team Lead, a Tech Lead, the Project Coordinator, the Customer Advocate – pick your role where you are responsible for the delivery of a group of individuals the first step is always the same. Show Up. Show Up and bring your best attitude, your best work ethic, your best ideas and your best effort. You can make mistakes, you can fail, you can screw up,…
It used to be that you if you wanted to go see the latest release of a particular movie you would have to wait in line. (I did this once) And if you got there and there were no tickets, you had to figure out what you were going to do as you waited for the next show to start. And even if you bought your tickets, and were late getting back to the theatre…
I’m big on not giving up on achieving your end goal. If it’s something you want, figure it out, keep trying, but don’t give up, especially when you get discouraged. But switch up your gameplan, don’t keep executing the same gameplan day after day after day after day after day. Tweak each part of your plan a bit, so you can measure success, see what worked and what didn’t and take it from there. That’s…
The problem with eliminating noise is that you then have solitude which results in a vacuum where more noise can originate from. So now you are in this cycle of emptying the noise and refilling it, emptying the noise and refilling it. Maybe the problem isn’t one of eliminating the noise but rather finding out what noise is good and finding a way to make it work. Maybe what you should be doing is finding a…
If you’re a developer, you’ve heard about the argument of delivering the Tractor vs the Cadillac. If not, here it is in condensed form. Tractor – rock solid, gets you from A to B with little fanfare, doesn’t look great, does the job, never falls over, stable as a rock. Cadillac – it looks really pretty, it’ll give you the smoothest ride from A to B (when it works), it has all the bells and…