Do you know what you’re up against? Another team? Another product? Another competitor? Is that what you’re up against or is that what is easy to write down that you’re up against? Perhaps it’s more… Your own ideas? Your ability to execute? Your own ambition? The other person down the hall who is trying to get work done as quickly as you? The podcast that ships out content 2 days before you? You might not…
When you don’t know the answer to a problem, you need to go look it up. It might not be as formal as what it used to be – going to the library or bookstore – but what you’re doing is still the same – Research. You’re digging into a topic you want to find the answer to. The problem (if you want to call it that) with Research, is that when we start doing…
If no one listens to what you say, is it really a project you’re working on? Are you actually contributing to something? Are you a part of something? The choice is yours, work with them to get them to start listening to you, help them see what you’re trying to move them towards, or step back and out – you don’t need that ongoing frustration in your life, you have more to offer. Someone is…
Things are great when everything is going your way. When the weather is what you want. When your morning beverage has the right of everything in it with nothing to spare. When your code compiles the first time, it does what it’s supposed to do. Pretty much everything and anything you’re doing, is rocking and rolling your way. These are great days – When things Go our Way – and we are happy for them.…
I can sit you down and give you all the reasons why it won’t work, whatever it is you’re doing, whyever it is that you are doing it. I can come up with all those reasons. Anyone can, whether they know your business or not, they can come up with those reasons on the spot. It’s a new market. It’s not proven. Won’t you need more people? What if this happens? Is it worth the…