Everything will go wrong. Despite your best efforts. It, or something like it, will not go your way. The question isn’t about how you are going to react when things go wrong. The question is whether you are going to keep working towards getting that one thing right.
I can get into the coding zone. I can get into the coaching zone. I can get into the process delivery zone. But man, getting into that creative zone, especially when I’m tired, had a long day, and my mind is filled with questions – that takes work. Odd that it takes work to get into a zone where I can be creative and do something different. If your team is struggling to get into…
You used to be able to walk past a meeting room, stick your foot through the door, poke your head in, and go – “Hey what’s shaking? Can I help out here?” Not so anymore, now you don’t know what calls are going on where, only the ones in your purview, only the ones that affect you. If you’re new to the company, there are big, global, wide-open channels you now need to take the…
We add pinches of ingredients to recipes, not the entire container. If the taste is still off, we add a little more. Little tweaks are the changes we make that improve what we are doing. They are a great way to make a minuscule improvement that could have a great impact on what you are doing. Only if you’re brave enough to do them. There is comfort in what we have always done, and that…
Leading a team. Testing Code. Writing Code. Building Requirements. Yes it gets tough and is never easy and there are good days and bad days, but this is what you signed up for because outside of the bad days there are always going to be good days, great days, and yes gooderer days (seriously that’s a word Grammarly). This is what you signed up for, push through the bad so you can get to the…