The Best Offense, talks together, knows who fits best, turns weaknesses into strengths, and celebrates all the victories big or small. They know setbacks aren’t the final result, but the next step towards success. And they don’t give up on each other.
The best teams learn together. A new technology, a new approach, a new methodology. They realize the problem, they realize what they need to do, and they focus on it. And they learn. They stand, they fall, they try again, they screw up and they keep trying together. That’s what the best teams do – no need for one expert, when the entire team knows what they are doing.
We all have our set of GOTO tools when we need to work a problem. Markers, Whiteboards, NotePad++, libraries, extensions, plugins, etc, etc. Starting with a new set of tools that are not your own feels wrong, out of place, and forced upon you. It feels like you are trying to crush a square peg through a round hole and it refuses to go. You keep pounding it in, but it won’t go. Give them…
Frameworks for one always work, always do exactly what you want them to. They are the most intuitive systems on the planet that can never fail no matter the bug or the error. But what happens when it becomes a Framework of Two? Or Three? What is the cost to move to more than one user consuming your framework? Could be what you have built isn’t a framework, but rather a collection, still a great…
I have a stand-up desk. I have a sticker on it that says “STAND UP”. I don’t overdue it in 45/60 minute increments and try to go for a basic 15 or 30 morning/afternoon. But when the days are long, when I need it most, I don’t do it. I have no idea why.