September 24, 2021
The task itself doesn’t get easier. You get better. And it becomes easier. You learn what makes it difficult and come with ideas, suggestions, and new paths to figuratively make it better, make it easier, but the task itself never changed. You did. It only stays difficult, when we refuse to change.
September 21, 2021
What do you need to know to do your job? Now, what do you not know? Focus on those gaps.
September 14, 2021
Can you grow your team remotely? And I’m not talking physically – I’m talking about leadership, development skills, scale, empathy, learning. Did you grow your team remotely? Did they develop over the past year when they were all separate? They probably weren’t attending any conferences this year so what did you offer them instead? It’s good not to have answers to these questions, it’s bad to now not do anything about it. Set the goals for how you are going to grow your team this year, share it with them, get their feedback, and move forward. A plan, an idea
September 13, 2021
When you are small, everyone and everything is within reach – you are all close together, all next to each other. You can smell the excitement and fear as you push code into production. It’s not one person doing it, it’s everyone, waiting, with bated breath to see what happens. When a customer calls in with an issue, everyone is watching the chat conversation or listening to the speaker. Everyone is there, everyone is involved – your success is predicated upon how much everyone has and wants to put into making it a success. You are all connected at the
September 5, 2021
In any process, whether it’s code, leadership, team development, building, whichever, there is a part where it gets awkward. Perhaps it’s a hypothesis that failed. Maybe your design fell on its face. Maybe the presentation on team growth fell flat. Whatever it is, there is that awkward moment of silence where you can either look it in the eye and figure out how to fix or you can let it sit there, stare at it, get mad at it, blame everyone around you for it because “hey, I didn’t ask for this awkwardness”. But if you can embrace it and
