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Confusion occurs when the task we are trying to accomplish is hit with new information that questions the necessity of the task. I’m asked to make scrambled eggs, but we have no eggs. Confusion – what should I do? Compounded Confusion occurs when we don’t change our direction based on the new information. I tell you we have no eggs and yet we keep being asked to make scrambled eggs. Now the issue is no…
You role, what you seek to accomplish, what you deliver, what you focus on. Is what you design it to be. The skills, the habits, the actions, the movements, the presentations are all yours to take and yours to own. If you want to be a manager, act like one. If you want to be a senior developer, learn what it takes to become one and start doing those things. If you want to be…
The Hardest plan to work on is one where it’s about the people on your team. On their growth. Taking into account their skills. What they are able to accomplish. What level they are at. It’s not a plan for you and what you need, it’s a plan for them and what they need. Many managers will struggle with this type of planning because the line between their goals that they need to achieve and…
There is an invisible ladder we don’t see but that exists all around us. It’s the ladder we use to determine how we rank, level and compare against everyone else we know – albeit professionally and/or sometimes personally (hopefully more on the professional side). We look at the skills someone else has and think – “We need to learn that, we need to know that, that’s the missing piece to me getting better, if only…