I received an email recently from a recruiter recently that only consisted of the title of the job in the subject line and a copied description in the body. No – hello. No – what’s up. No – what do you think. The goal was for me to respond with either a yes or no before a real conversation took place. That was the gate and it was up to me to decide what to…
I finished a big project I’ve been working on for a few years. Yup it took that long, between multiple starts and stops, being worried about how it’d turn out and not sure if it’d ever get done, I finished. Here’s how I did; I let the voice in my head that kept saying it was garbage to keep talking and sat down at the keyboard and pounded out intervals and intervals of work.I broke…
If you are getting immeasurable value out of them. If no one is dropping out on their phones. If people are looking more towards the front than at their laptops. If everyone is engaged. If the conversation is exciting, discourse is happening and everyone is respectful of each other’s ideas. If forward momentum is happening. If it’s worth it. We are focusing too much on timeboxing simply for the sake of timeboxing when in effect…
The person who goes last is responsible for summing everything up. Everything that came before them is at their fingertips. They get to have the last word. Their words are the last ones that everyone will think of and linger with as they walk out of the room or the conference hall. They have a choice in how they respond, in what they do. Whenever I have gone last, what I was going to say…
Our tendency is to “Scorch Earth” when something isn’t going right instead of to tweak it. On your phone too much? Toss it out. The Project not going well? Start over from scratch. Platform keeping you down? Go find a new one. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Instead of tossing your phone, delete the offending app(s) and see what changes. Instead of starting over on your project, focus on an area of…