Or Fall Apart. When you’re on a team, any team, in any timezone, remote or in the office, upstairs or downstairs, doing the same job or different ones, if you can’t bring them together, if you can’t come together… You’ll never be a team. You’ll just be a bunch of people, in the same place, doing some stuff and hoping that it somehow will come together. Pro Tip: It won’t. Yeah, that’s hard to hear,…
They do exist. The follow you around wherever you go, ready to jump into whatever problem you are working on. They ask to be cc:ed on every single email you send (or you feel the need to do it). They are there to catch you when you fall and tell you why you fell and how you should have done it their way. They don’t go on vacation because the “team always needs them”. It’s hard…
It’s going to happen. One day, as you look through all the successes of your team, as you sit atop your plateau, you will start to wonder why you haven’t grown any further. Everyone else will be happy with your success, but something will be nagging at you, something will be tugging at you asking that question that you know is always there. Who is holding us back? Who is the weakest member of our…
Call it Cold, Rain, Sun, Heat, Hail. But did you really “Brave” it? Did you pick up a sword and go fight it? Or did you put on a coat or some sunscreen? Cape Town is braving the weather, what they have to do next, that’s bravery. We’re not braving the weather, we’re simply living with it. Turn your tap off for a week if you’re confused about the difference.
When you are coaching, mentoring, teaching or leading someone, the best moment is when it clicks. It’s the moment where all those hours, days, weeks, months and/or years of persistent effort, working side-by-side with one another finally pays off. Not with monetary gains, trophies, recognition, likes or posts. But with the acknowledgement that it finally “clicked”, it came together, it worked. And now you get to move onto something new. That’s the moment all leaders…