If no one knows the answer to your question, then you’ve become the expert in that area. Or that’s the joke. That’s not the answer you were looking for, but it’s the truth as to what is going to happen next. Your options: become the expert, relish in it, own it, make it your own, or put it aside and wait for someone else who wants to take on the role. When you’re an expert,…
When we had to buy hardware to set up your tests, we were efficient as hell. We would spend weeks, maybe even months, watching for deals and agonizing over cache, RAM, CPU, disk arrays, and storage size. Someone still has to do that to make the implementation of clouds effective, but you don’t have to do it anymore. We barely have server rooms anymore. Now you want to try out a virtual machine or build…
Build a Routine or cut things out. Those are your choices. They aren’t the choices you want to hear, but they are your choices. So make one and move on.
The Second Time you do anything, it will be better. Maybe not by much, but it will be better. By the Third and Fourth times, you will continue to see additional improvement. And if you follow through for the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth times, more changes occur. But only if you are able to get through that second time first.
If you have someone on your team, that makes you want to show up better, earlier, and smarter than the day before. Then that person is your leader. It doesn’t matter what’s on the org chart; they are your leaders, and they are the ones who will make you better than you are today. Volunteer to work with them. Ask them questions. Get them to review your work. Listen to their feedback and apply it.…