June 8, 2024
Does it matter? If you don’t know enough can you figure it out? If you can’t figure it out, do you know who to ask? When things go sideways are you going to stop or keep pushing into it? The question isn’t how much you know, but how much desire and drive you have to learn to know.
June 6, 2024
Cars shift. If you’re driving standard, it’s a more pronounced shift, you need to initiate it, otherwise, the engine keeps revving. The persistent revving of the engine is the cue for you to know when to shift, you know by the sound that it can’t maintain its push unless you shift to a higher gear. Knowing when to shift, either yourself or your team is critical to growth and not as simple to determine as a car. Figuring out when your team needs to shift is one of the most important jobs of any leader – it’s what ensures measured,
June 2, 2024
I read a plethora of Choose Your Own Adventure Books as a kid – they were great. I don’t know what today’s equivalent of them would be. But as I was writing this article, I could smell the paper, feel the book in my hands and was flooded with memories of flipping back and forth trying to outsmart the author – I never did. But here it is – Choose your Own Adventure.
June 1, 2024
AI can reimagine things. AI can pull together information. AI can get you started on a proposal. AI can answer questions. AI can build things. Show me AI coming up with an idea from scratch. I want that create AI, I want AI levels up, not just do something faster. Until then, I will wave at my IT overlords as they pass by with a mutual nod of appreciation for doing good work.
May 31, 2024
The only way to go is down when digging a hole. When you hit a rock, you switch from the big awesome tool to the small tiny tool that is slower progress but gets the job done. When one obstacle is cleared, you keep digging further and further until you hit the next one. Until you finally hit the bottom, and then you’re there and you’re done. You never know how far you are to your goal because you can see past the rock and sand, all you can see is what is in front of you, and what is
