Great you screwed up. You did something wrong. You made a mistake. Now go try again – that’s the only way you’ll figure out how to turn the wrongs into rights. If you stop after one wrong, you’ll never get to where you could be right.
If it’s “not much” – chances are they aren’t as good as they should be. If you are the one running them and that’s your answer, I’d put a pause on them now. Of all the people in the room, you’re the one who needs to be getting the most from those meetings and if you’re not, well there is a big, big problem. And if you don’t know what you need to get out…
In sports, when you challenge a player, you aren’t committing to them, you’re staying with them, you’re in front of them, you’re protecting your side and doing nothing else. You’re an obstacle, something they need to work through, someone they need to break through to get to their goal. Outside of sports, challenging is the same thing, you’re always pushing, always trying new things, always poking, always working, always breaking in. If you’re not, you’re…
Growing Teams isn’t easy. Growing development teams while having to deliver releases is an endeavor in its own category that is always met with – “I don’t want to onboard new people while I have a pile of work to get done” – which is completely understandable. We always default to scaling by people, headcount, and numbers – and yet there are other ways to scale as well – Process, Growth, Minimalism, and Skill. I…
Got asked this topic a few months ago – “What’s your Topic?” I stared at a blank space for a bit and thought about this very direct question – what is it and what did I want it to be? Was I happy with what it was? Was that going to be ambitious enough? I wrote down some ideas and posted them – now I wonder if they are still the same. But it’s a…