8 months ago
There is Always a Better Way
Don’t fool yourself. There will ALWAYS be a Better Way. It might not be as easy to get there, but it will be better. Nothing stays the same.
Articles for category: Growth
8 months ago
Build it like it’s Yours
There is an old story about the Carpenter’s House – the last project before he moves on. At the end, he finds out he’s been building his own house the whole time, and cut corners all along the way. So now he’s stuck with a “meh” house with lots of fixes needed for it. I don’t think you’re going to get your own cloud tenant on the last one you built for a client, but if anything, if you’re wanting to separate yourself from other in the market with your work – pride, value, commitment – these are all things
8 months ago
Competing with the Loudest Voice
Competing with the louder voice is a race to the bottom (top?) to see who is the loudest. You can’t win. To compete with the loudest voice is to provide the opposite that they can’t do: remain silent, don’t say a word, and wait. A conversation and meeting cannot happen with one person, and eventually, they will realize to move forward, they will need to listen.
8 months ago
Did we accomplish our goal?
This is one of the hardest questions to ask at the end of a meeting: “Did we accomplish our goal?” This is why it is so rarely asked: no one wants to hear the answer. If, meeting after meeting, you were to hear the answer to this question being “No”, how demoralizing would that be? Massively. But the hard questions don’t come with easy answers, because the answers that come require work, hard work, tough work, work that makes you hang your head and wonder what you’ve taken on. Did we accomplish our goal? If not, what do we change
8 months ago
The Effort is what Matters
Right now we are boiling everything down to fast something can get down and how little effort we need to put in to get it done. We have reached the future that Wall-E predicted. When I used to hire Junior Developers, we knew what we were getting – blank slates with some level of computer knowledge – so how were they evaluated? Their effort. How much time did they put in, how much were they willing to put in – those were the metrics of someone who wanted it, wanted to be there, and hungered to learn and grow. Effort