When you hire a new person for your team, you always want to have that little voice inside your head saying – “I think this person can be better me”. If you do, hire them. If you don’t, don’t hire them. As a Leader, your job is to make sure that every person leaps over you, maybe switching groups, taking on new projects, leaving the organization, whatever it is. You always want people that can…
It’s not before the project starts – that would be too upsetting to the team, let’s see how things get going first, we don’t want to slow things down? It’s not during the project – well the team is already working towards the next release, wouldn’t this slow them down? It’s not near the end of the project – well things could be doing better, we are late, but if we switched now wouldn’t this…
I should have written this on May 4th (May the Fourth be With You) but thought of it while writing a recent MEDIUM article on why we all need to have a Coach. I started thinking of the traits of great coaches and for some reason came back to the Jedi Master himself, Obi Wan Kenobi. What makes Obi Wan Kenobi the greatest Jedi ever? He never gave Luke all the answers he wanted and…
As a leader, you know there is much more work to accomplish than your time will permit. So does your team. If you’ve done things correctly in setting up and leading your team then you’ll know it when you are sitting down for your regular team meeting and you pull out the list of work to do, taking tasks for yourself only to have members of your team jump in and take them for you.…
Are like pilots without a license. Sure you’ll probably get there, but… Will you get there on time? Will you get there in one piece? Will it cost you less than an arm but more than a leg? Will you really know why you are going there to begin with? Without context to a problem, we are hoping to solve an issues with an infinite number of variables. But when we add context to the…