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…
You might be talking a lot these days. Your calendar might be completely blue. And you might be having great discussions. But two weeks later you might also be wondering why nothing is changing and why what you thought were the actions never happened. It could be because you are not structuring your conversations around outcomes you want to see. Outcomes are bigger then agenda items, they are what you need to see happen next,…
When you can’t go anywhere on vacation, everyone knows where you are. The pull to log in “just once” and check your email. Or respond to that quick SLACK message that shows up on your phone. Or give out your personal cell for people to reach out to you in a pinch. If you choose not to respond, you’re wracked with guilt over letting your team down at a time when you were supposed to…
I signed up for a conference that was a few weeks ago. It was a one day event, only a few hours. I really to wanted to go to it to see what I could get out of it. It’s the third one I’ve missed since being remote was supposed to make going to virtual conferences that much easier. When I was “at” a conference, I could leave the laptop at the hotel, come back…