Now – you need to work on this, this is what you need to get done to move forward and be successful. Later – is what you need to do in the long-term, the big idea, the thing that is going to continue making you successful. The Later can’t be done Now because it’s too big, and the Now can’t be done Later it’s a gap filler and not a strategy. One gets you over…
What I admire most about video games, is their resiliency to consistency deliver updates. Maybe I’ve been lucky but when I look at the games I’ve played, and how they are updated I can’t help but think that this is where the time was spent first – on the Updates. The team figured out the problem they hoped they would have forever. Pushing out changes and ensuring they don’t impact their customers from using their…
After one release that goes well, you’re perfect. If your second and third ones go just as well, you’ll maintain that perfection. But eventually, the more you do, the greater you open yourself up to the chance that something will go wrong, that you won’t have the perfect release. That your code might blow up. That a bug might get missed. What factors outside of your control will cause you to slip? Because presumably, you…
Want to show how good you are at something? Want people to see how good you are? Show them how much you love it. Even if it doesn’t go your way, what’s the worst that happened? You showed them how much you love it and that will never change.
When working with a new group, you need an early adopter, someone that buys into what you are doing and can help push the idea to everyone. This is your leader, the person that you can get to buy into what you are doing and work with you to get your message out, this is someone who will always be listening and never doubting what you are saying. This person will help get the rest…