A Sounding Board is someone you can bounce ideas off of. Someone you can get some advice from when what is in your head doesn’t sound right (or even if it sounds right to confirm what you are thinking). Whether it’s a project, a company, a joint venture – everyone needs a sounding board. With so much work being done remotely, we’ve lost what used to be our ad-hoc sounding boards – running ideas by…
Who do you want your team to be? More importantly, why do you want them to be that team? It’s great to know who you want them to be, but the question we often miss is why? It’s the why that’s going to help them get to where you want them to be, otherwise you’re giving them no reason to work towards something.
You try, you fall. That wasn’t the first step. That was the first attempt. The first starts now. Many don’t take that first step. Those that do, will stumble and fall again, deciding whether they should take that first step again. It’s all first steps, all the time. If you think you’re behind you’re not, as you stumble, there are less and less of us willing to take those first steps. Keep stumbling, keep stepping.
If everything, everywhere, and everyone is constantly changing. Then you never know how you are doing because you have nothing to measure against the rate you change. When something is wrong, change one thing, measure it, and move forward. Change one thing, measure it, and move forward. Change one thing, measure it, and move forward. Change one thing, measure it, and move forward. This is how you determine whether your changes are having an impact…
Changes in weather, significant changes, can drastically affect the course of your day. A little rain here, some sunshine there, a bit of snow – they are all okay in proportion to what you are currently working through. But a 50cm dump you had no idea was coming your way? Plus 45C heat? That is significant, that changes things, that throws all your plans out the window, and forces you to create and find new…