You have to get to know them. You have to know your team. If you don’t know them if you don’t understand what their worries, concerns, ambitions, or goals are – how can you hope to craft a strategy to help them grow, develop, and become a team? Every member is a part of the team, they all have something to offer, it’s up to you to find out what it is and how it…
If you’re always showing up, you are that much farther than those that don’t. If you show up and participate, you are that much farther than those that show up. If you show up and ask questions, provide feedback, take initiative, lead and keep helping others. Well… then you’re unstoppable.
If you can’t get them to trust each other if you can’t get them to find that common ground. How can you expect them to build an app? How can you expect them to build a system? How can they execute on your system? What will they do when things go wrong? Find the common ground, wherever it is, and start there.
When you start building code, insurmountable amounts of code that you had not planned on writing at the onset, to work with the platform. It’s time to move on. You tried, the fit isn’t there, move on.
The question your team will ask over and over again if they don’t understand your vision, or if they forget, or if they get lost along the way. It can be frustrating for a leader to hear that after they have poured so much into making it happen, into making it worthwhile, into making it something only to be hit a dismissive – “Why are we doing this?”. Make sure they always know it, make…