Having a working Sump Pump during a rain storm, during a flood, can be your savior. A Sump Pump is a hole in your basement that has a pump in it, when the water fills up the hole to a certain level, the pump turns on and starts pumping that water out of your house. Your house is saved. When there is no water in the hole, the pump never runs. Depending on where you…
The Big Event is what you are getting ready for. The release of your software. The presentation you’ve spent the last month working on. The proposal you’ve spent the last week on. The purchase you’ve been saving for. The Big Event is whatever it is that you’ve been wanting to accomplish, working on it bit by bit each day. The Big Event is here – hope you’re ready.
The question when determining to undertake a pivot isn’t so much what you are going to pivot to as whether your team is going to be able to undertake the pivot. Pivots are executed by people not by products. The product is there to do what you tell it to do. The question will always be – “Can my team pivot, are they able to make this change?” Not all teams can, the follow-up then…
Video Games are great for putting your rank out there – where you’re at and what you need to get to the next level. We’ve gamified everything over the years to provide that same experience as to what you can expect when you get to the next level. Applying a gamification rating to your career has been tricky though, primarily because career development is a non-linear path and the only person to measure the rank…
Only you know the answer to what else you can do to solve a problem, to fix what’s wrong, to figure out what to work on next. The question of “What Else can you do?” isn’t for someone else to ask, it’s for you to ask of yourself. We do things as a team, but the ones that ask this question of themselves all the time, are the ones that emerge as the leaders.