The Glue fills in the Gaps on your team. They keep you together. They stop you from breaking apart. The glue isn’t a process, a spreadsheet or a line of code. The glue is a person. They might not have the title that you would think designates them as the glue, but everyone knows who they are and what they bring to the team. Everyone has someone on their team that is the glue -…
Want to learn more? Want to get better at a particular task? Want to grow a new skill set? Stop standing to the side and jump in. Volunteer. Ask to take on a new task. And when you figure out that task, ask for another. You don’t grow by standing to the side and watching. You grow by jumping in, falling over, making mistakes, and getting back up and trying again.
Can you challenge your team? Not by giving them more work, but by questioning why they undertook a certain strategy, why they are following a certain pattern, what did they choose library A over library B? Can you ask them a question and have a discussion, not to assert your knowledge and authority but to learn and grow through asking why? The best teams ask each other why all the time, not for ego, but…
I buy your product, and you get my money. We have a partnership, and we are working together. If I don’t like your product, ranting and raving about it, but it never comes to you, that does nothing for our partnership. If I’m using your product incorrectly, that doesn’t mean you have a bad product, that means we have a disconnect, and if not talked about, does nothing for our partnership. There is always a…
I remember being glued to this tracker for days and weeks 5 years ago. It was like watching a slow moving train in action sweeping from country to country. Although informative, it did nothing for my well-being. I write this at a time when real-time news cycles have the potential to derail our days completely with little disregard for how it affects us. We seem to have gone back to that era where a firehose…