You would have to be a robot (or a chatbot) to not realize that your team is most likely starting to feel the effects of Remote Work Fatigue. Either they have or they are on their way to feeling it. These are one of those moments in your role as being a leader that you will forever remember how you responded and helped your team work through this milieu. For many it is starting to…
I forget to post the updates to Remotely Prepared under some guise that I have missed the “window of opportunity.” Last week we released our latest episode, an interview with Liam Martin. I love interviews that go in a completely different direction then what we originally intended. I’m not sure if this makes me a good interviewer (or a bad one) but it’s that inflection point where I can see the value of the conversation…
For whatever reason, whenever I write code, I use the constructor to do some stuff to get the main object loaded – some basic stuff – setup some variables and collections but when it comes to getting things going… woo boy… that’s when we call Init(). Init is what gets things going, it’s what makes code sing, it’s what starts the day at the races and gets your app up and running. When I call…
When delivering work for a company, you are a part of the cog, you are a piece of the delivery, you are a component of what someone is up at the front of the room with powerpoint in hand where they might call you out expand on a topic. When you are delivering for yourself, you are the engine, you are living the topic and you are calling yourself out each and every day. Want…
A void in leadership can demotivate a team from 100 to 0 in seconds. Where everyone is looking for an answer, a path, a direction, anything that they can follow as a guide, hearing nothing in return leaves you feeling stuck, lost and confused. So what do you do? Step 1, figure out what you can do. Step 2, do it. Step 3, bring people in to so they can become a part of what…