September 29, 2024
Lead the Calm
When Leading your team out of the storm, they aren’t looking for Thunder and Lightning. They are looking for calm. They are looking for someone to lead them out of the storm with calm. Lead them that way.
Articles for category: Initiative
September 28, 2024
We Must Be Doing it Wrong?
If you’re saying this, if you’re thinking this. You probably are. You might be using product x correctly, but you now know that this is not the way you want to do things so in effect – yes you are doing it wrong. Don’t stop at GO, Don’t collect $200 – figure it out to get back on track. This feeling you have – this is the nascent birth of Technical Debt that many live with for way too long because they ignored this feeling.
September 25, 2024
The Creative Penalty
Standards we follow, they ensure everyone is implementing repeatable work that can be shared amongst the team. I.e., we don’t need to use 7 libraries, we can use 2 and be great with it. Within those 2 libraries, be creative, come up with new ideas, and don’t be fearful of things going wrong. It’s in our creativity that our code and our work improve and grow our team. If you’re leading a team, encourage creativity, if you’re part of a team, you owe it to them to be creative. No one ever grew from doing the same thing over and
September 22, 2024
Level Up
The best, absolute best, part of any video game is leveling up. You do a bunch of “stuff”, gain enough of “something” and level up. You become bigger, better, and stronger. And from there, you get “points” that you can spend to further your development. Points that can make you smarter, and stronger, make old tasks easier to accomplish, and give new ones a better chance at success. It’s the same in life, except you don’t get to see the screen in front of you, you don’t get to make that pick for “points” and then “it’s there” and you
September 16, 2024
Your Level of Effort
Your level of effort is compensatory to what you will receive. It might not always be the paycheck today, it will invariably lead to the paycheck tomorrow. The paycheck might not even be monetary today. But whatever you hope to get out it will be driven entirely by what you put in.