You purchase a product. You customize it. You customize it some more. You keep tinkering and tweaking until there is nothing left of the original save for your customizations. You now have a mess of an upgrade on your hands. You now have time spent figuring out why you had to customize it to the nth degree. If you’re having to customize something you bought that much, it might be a sign, you need to…
Don’t tell anyone what you’re doing. Don’t brag about it. Don’t post it. Don’t like it or subscribe to it. Just do it. Do the Hard work first, everything else is easy work. Anyone can do the easy work. We need the hard work.
When Leading your team out of the storm, they aren’t looking for Thunder and Lightning. They are looking for calm. They are looking for someone to lead them out of the storm with calm. Lead them that way.
If you’re saying this, if you’re thinking this. You probably are. You might be using product x correctly, but you now know that this is not the way you want to do things so in effect – yes you are doing it wrong. Don’t stop at GO, Don’t collect $200 – figure it out to get back on track. This feeling you have – this is the nascent birth of Technical Debt that many live…
This is different from Delayed Leadership. Delaying Leadership is when you know there is a need, you know there is a problem, and you can’t put your finger on it, but something is broken somehow, somewhere and your team needs help. But, this involves change, it requires a grinding of the gears, a breaking of things that are, and acknowledging that something different has to be done. So we actively work to delay any changes…