No I don’t. Not even close. I know things you don’t know and vice-versa. That’s the beauty of working with a team, you don’t have to be the expert at everything, you don’t have to know it all. The best advice I ever got for leading a developer that outclassed me in every area – “I won’t be able to help you with coding, but I am going to help you with all that other…
Feedback can come in intervals or as one big hose. The benefit of intervals is that you are able to give out the feedback in drips, watch for improvement, tweak, and give out some more. When it comes out as a firehose, the “giving” of the feedback benefits you because you get it out all at once and can move on. Feedback in intervals takes longer, goes slower, and requires you to hold back when…
Through every good and bad, there is a path forward. It’s not always clear what the path is. It’s not always clear where it lies. But it’s there. You just need to look for it.
That’s the only question you need to ask yourself. Every day. Every week. Every month. What does the team need? The follow-up is always the same. What I can do to make it happen? That’s how Leadership starts.
Your toughest, most critical opponent will always be yourself. You will be hardest on yourself before the game, meeting, lecture, discussion has even begun. The goal is not to. The goal is to quiet the toughest opponent in your head, tell them to come out when you need them, when you need that extra kick, that last push. And never before. Not before you’re started.