February 25, 2019
Don’t give up when the road gets tough. If you want to get better that’s all it takes. The majority of us will give up when he hit Craptivity because it’s the easier thing to do, we don’t get to feel like to we aren’t good enough anymore, we get to try something new and feel good again. But it’s not how we get better.
February 22, 2019
My best, most productive lunch meetings have been simple affairs. Get a shawarma, find a spot, eat. Go to the place we always go to, order the same thing we always order, discuss. It’s the routine of it that makes the lunch meeting successful. It’s elimination of spending 20 minutes to decide what you want and before that umpteen text messages of where you are going to meet. The meeting starts with zero indecisiveness and gets right down to the discuss at hand. The fancier the place has yet to ever impress, all it shows is that you are willing
February 18, 2019
Pull yourself out. Don’t wait for someone else to do it. It’s not a sign of weakness but strength – you know something is wrong – you know you’re not thinking in the right space. You know. Let someone else on the team take over, take a moment, re-centre, find your focus, than when you’re off Tilt – get back in there. And if you can’t pull yourself out of it when you’re on it – get someone on your team to do it for you – tell them in advance what to look for. This happens to everyone, no
February 13, 2019
Playbook – A stock of tactics and methods to achieve an objective. Most commonly used in sports. Should be used more in business, software, everything. If you don’t have a go-to set of plays to win a client, keep them happy, deliver your project, grow your team, challenge them and yes, train yourself – than you and your team have no direction on what they should be doing and how they should be doing it. Playbooks aren’t perfect, they are proposed plans to accomplish something that have been designed outside the heat of the moment so that when things get
February 8, 2019
If you’re building up that long wait for your community, building that tension, that anticipation, that excitement with teasers, social media posts, behind the scenes views and on and on and on. You better make sure if lives up to the hype. If what you’re building isn’t going to live up to the hype, dial it down, put out the updates, keep them succinct and focussed. “We’re introducing some new features to better align our offering with our other products” Keep it short, simple, answer questions, maybe as it gets closer offer some more specifics. Case in point – for
