It’s interesting to see the aftermath of a mistake. Someone says something wrong, well they are going to do it again so let’s write them off. Someone didn’t approach the problem in the way you would have and it went sideways, not doing that again. Someone tried beyond their hardest, went too far and well we wouldn’t want that person to try again now would we. Someone was already overloaded with everything else on their plate and…

You know all that great code you wrote last night when you were “in the zone”?  Or all those spreadsheets and budget files you’ve been working on for the past few weeks that amount to not an hour, but hours and hours, almost full days of work? Still not feeling it? Take something really important from your current device of choice – your computer, laptop, phone, whatever – the most important thing you can think of…

Someone isn’t going to like how you coded that interface today. The latest chapter of your book is going to be ripped apart for the plethora of grammar errors running through it. What you thought was a good document, will be dissected and discarded. All that studying you put in, was on the wrong chapter. Your email etiquette just didn’t make the cut today. Years of slaving away on that product was torn apart by one…

Something is going to go wrong today. Code will break. Builds will fail. Customers will flood the lines. Your website will go down. Someone will leave. You’ll lose your presentation. Someone will take your idea. Maybe not in the same realm of the above, but something will go wrong today, it will not go as planned. So – is now a good time to throw it all out the window?  If you can’t have the…

When someone leaves your team, your organization, your whatever – it’s not business, it’s personal – there said it. But not for the reason that you think. If you’ve ever had this happen to you, you know the feeling inside that you can’t shake for the next two weeks and for all the times thereafter.  I can name all the people that have left while they were on my team.  I can tell you exactly…