September 22, 2023
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.
September 7, 2023
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.
September 3, 2023
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.
August 29, 2023
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 sure they always feel it, make sure they always know – We are doing this because. The best success is when your team starts answering
August 28, 2023
Your membership has privileges. If you’ve been a member somewhere for a few years, that should buy you some goodwill – a thank you, some forgiveness if something goes wrong, a check-in, etc. That’s the whole point of membership – being part of something that people care about. We’ve devolved membership to be “Sorry to see you go.” as opposed to “What did we miss?”. If you’re building a program that requires membership, start first with what privilege and purpose that builds before you get into email and invoice reminders (those are the easy things to do).
