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We’re back to enforcing people to exist in person to trust that they will do the job. For two years we trusted everyone, we found the best and the brightest that got work done – we might have slowed down – but we got work done. And now we’re back to enforcing limits on how and where people can deliver from. What did we learn during this forced remote experiment that we all took part…

Have you scheduled it yet? Have you thought about it? Are you waiting for someone else to do it? What’s your Budget? Team events don’t need to be expensive, they can definitely be simple and their entire goal is to bring people together, have some laughs, and get to know each other better. The smallest team events that have been ad-hoc, end of the day, 30 minutes to an hour I rate better than the…

Back to figuring out the hard problems. Back to banging your head against the wall. Back to having setbacks. Back to things breaking over and over again. Back to betas that blow up. Back to Build Mode.

It’s a statement we often say to ourselves as we sit in a meeting that we aren’t speaking in and aren’t contributing too. As the meeting progresses, we say it more and more to ourselves, over and over again. It’d be rude to just get up and leave and call it a day (you wouldn’t do that in person, remotely, some might notice). The key is in evaluating next time and politely decline. Meetings aren’t…

I can get into the coding zone. I can get into the coaching zone. I can get into the process delivery zone. But man, getting into that creative zone, especially when I’m tired, had a long day, and my mind is filled with questions – that takes work.  Odd that it takes work to get into a zone where I can be creative and do something different. If your team is struggling to get into…