You can stop the meeting whenever you want. No one is holding you back. Many are probably hoping that you do. The ones who end the meeting without the “let me give you back 5 minutes of your day” are the ones who see the direction and value as fleeting and are willing to call it in an effort to do something better tomorrow – maybe change the objective, the roster or the time. But…
If you can focus on one problem, you will find your purpose. If you can put all your energy into that one thing, you will find what matters and how to make it happen. Ideas will spring forth that you never knew existed from places you never knew you had. All because you set your focus to solving that one problem.
Is the first place you wish you started. Because then you wouldn’t have had to go through all that “trying stuff and failing and feeling like garbage about not having got it perfect before.” This is true. But now you know the first place to look next time, so now next time there will be a last place to look. The Last Place to Look is based on where you are in figuring things out,…
The Challenge of any Leader is to lead the team today with an eye on tomorrow. You’re always leading a battle on two fronts – today and tomorrow – and it’s one that no one ever sees happening, but daily, it’s happening in your mind as you run through team personalities, external factors, changes in technologies, deadlines, and commitments. Everything and anything. The trap is getting stuck in today because of what might happen tomorrow…
Remote work was easy when everyone was forced to be remote. We all had to do it, might as well figure it out. Now we’re not being forced to do it. Like anything when you’re not forced to do it, your desire to do it wanes, you pull back, you relax, you’re not at your most interested. What we did for those few years as Remote Workers, worked for that scenario, but those parameters don’t…