How many times has the resolution to a problem come to you when you stepped back from a problem? Perhaps you did something else? Maybe you talked to someone about it? Or maybe it just sat there for 2 weeks until you went back to it? Did it work? So why not do it more often? Oh that’s right, the time crunch, where everything needs to be fixed yesterday and you don’t have time to Step…
Definition the point at which your internal tank is empty and has nothing left to give. No matter how much caffeine you put into your body, there is nothing left to give. Symptoms You find yourself unable to put in extra hours to accomplishing a particular task, diminishing returns is rampant in everything you are doing. Your Passion has drifted from where you could think of all the new things you wanted to do, to simply thinking…
Imagine all the work you put in over the course of a year to accomplish a project and ship a release, the hours upon hours of coding and testing to make something happen. Think of all the beta releases and customer trials that you went through to make sure things worked. Now go back even further and envision this as the version 1.0 release where you are coming into an already populated field and there…
You know that feeling you get after you haven’t worked out for awhile and your whole body is aching because it’s all like – “hey this is above and beyond our normal routine of getting up, going to work, sitting down, going home, watching something and going to bed” – routine. And maybe that is something you are doing some other activities during the day too – but you know the day I’m talking about…
The Detractor isn’t a bad person to have on your team, they aren’t malicious per se, but they are 100% – a Distraction – where their main goal is to detract you from your goal. The Detractor has their own goals in mind, they are working towards something else that is separate from what the rest of the team is focussed on. Towards the end of each meeting, when everyone has said their piece and…