“We’ve been delivering based on our fires over the past two months.” That’s what you hear when you are focused on customer issues, in triaging the immediate and getting the fixes out the door before asap, where the customers are beating down the door to get your code to work. And you’ve probably been successful at this, but you can only do it for so long, there are only so many times you can plan…
There are always exceptions to rules that should be broken when the time and place require it. But the majority of the time, the rules are there to guide us and ensure we are all operating within the same parameters that will help our team grow and develop. If one person is always breaking the rules they are sending the clearest of messages that the rules don’t apply to them. And if the rules don’t…
The team meeting is the most hallowed of all meetings. It is a gathering of the minds of your team and the greatest opportunity for you to lay out the plans for the week and hear from your team about what they are doing, where they are struggling, where help is required, and most importantly where you can reassure them. Don’t ever show up unprepared for a team meeting, it’s your single, greatest tool in…
We romanticize failure infinitely too much. Yes, to grow you need to fail. But if you are failing all the time and in a spectacular fashion, perhaps the goal shouldn’t be to keep failing but to find a way to generate a win so you can build on that. At some point we need to succeed.
What got you here, is not what is going to get you there. The question then is are you willing to do something new to get you there?