Have you ever attended one of these? Not knowing what you were getting into until the end of the meeting where you thought everything had been discussed, ready to go but then only to be informed that now everyone was all prepped, on point, had the same message for the real meeting? Did you then sit through the “real meeting” wondering why you were there, expect maybe for the proverbial show of team unity, wondering…
I’ve written about Failure a number of times – The True Cost of Failure and Insulating the Failure – and let’s be honest, so have many, many, many other people. Some of my most spectacular failures were not the ones where I was up late at night coding by brains away trying to figure out some new problemset or use some new language – “Okay, so that’s what happens when you take up all the memory”.…
In any training there is always that one amazing point that you take from it that blows your mind… Why have I not been doing this for years? It was right in front of me all along. That makes total and complete sense. For me, this was years ago when I had just become a Software Manager and the suggestion that I have One on One meetings with my team every month to see how things…
I love it when someone says “I will do this” – that word “will” – it say so much about what someone is going to do; They have passion and fortitude to get something done. They are making a promise to finish something. They have committed to make this “thing” a reality. They have taken on the ownership to make this happen. When I hear someone say that word, you can immediately look up to…
Call it whatever you want, but let’s narrow it down to this little Indie film that opened up yesterday. The hype has been growing since the release date was announced, tickets were purchased well in advance, days were planned around this moment, people have stood in line for weeks waiting for entrance, tools have been made to block spoilers. And now… … it’s passed. Was the hype worth it? Was it as good as you hoped? Did…