It sucks. Yes it sucks. It’s not easy (I don’t think it was ever meant to be). A fantastic interview with Heather Caudill on how she has navigated the last year of leading teams remotely and not shying away from the hard conversations that need to happen for her team to succeed. Full episode is here.
If you want the members of your team to grow and become more than they are, you’re going to need to change your tactics. Placating them with platitudes of how great the work they are doing is, how well they are doing, how awesome they are, how you wish you had fifteen of them, how they should be doing your job, etc, etc, etc – is not going to help them grow. It’s going to…
This week, my car battery died. For two days it was a pain as I had no vehicle and had to get it replaced. Not being a car guy, this was a lot of on-the-spot learning in how to do this. What can I say, I get spooked when connecting high-voltage metal objects together. I had a great teacher and in less than an hour I was back up and running. Between it being broken…
What does 5% get you? In school it was the difference between a C and a B or a B and a A. If you were to increase the throughput or download speed of your application by 5% that would be significance. If you were starving for space on an overcrowded 5 Terabyte Hard Drive, that’s 250 GB of saved space. Now what if you were able to get an additional 5% out of your…
Right now, you’re probably realizing that your success to date in the great year of 2020 was built upon all the building blocks you put into effect in late 2019 and early 2020. You’ve gotten by because you’ve been riding that wave of planning that has propelled you through the rest of the year that you’ve had to tweak, but has gotten you through. In looking forward to what is next, it’s not enough to…