It’s hard work keeping a team together, everyone has a different set of work ethics and commitment that drive their unique approach. Sometimes they jive and sometimes they don’t. The worst thing you can do to someone on your team mid-project is to write them off – “not good enough, not worthy of our team, we’ll drop you shortly” because it sends that signal loud and clear and from there – What would you do? How…
I can look at a sketch and go – I can draw that. I can sit down to draw it and it does not come out how I envisioned it. I can look at another sketch and go – I can draw THAT. I can sit down again to draw it and it STILL does not come out how I envisioned it. And then I can walk away for a week not wanting to try…
It’s not a myth or some kind of infomercial – it is scientifically proven that everything starts with one. One Step. One Attempt. One Loss. One Goal. One Swing. One Compile. One Project. One New Document. One Upload. One Synchronization. One Drawing. One Chance. One Numbering System. One semi-colon. This doesn’t mean it is going to go great, it means you’re going to give it one try and see where it goes from there.
The backbencher is a tough one to crack. They sit at the back of the room, hidden behind a notebook or laptop, never looking up. They don’t contribute to solving problems. They don’t offer suggestions for growth and/or improvement. They do, wait, patiently, patiently, when everything has been laid out, to submit their criticism of the idea once fully fleshed out by all those around you. Depending on the problem set and political climate they might…
The NitPicker is a frustrating person to work with, for one debilitating reason – they pour through all of your work, all of your team’s work for the sole purpose of finding something out of place and exposing it. Not to help make it better. Not to improve the customer experience. Not to stabilize a peer’s code. Not to improve relation’s with a partner’s product. Simple to find something that shouldn’t be there and making it known…