The question your team will ask over and over again if they don’t understand your vision, or if they forget, or if they get lost along the way. It can be frustrating for a leader to hear that after they have poured so much into making it happen, into making it worthwhile, into making it something only to be hit a dismissive – “Why are we doing this?”. Make sure they always know it, make…
Your membership has privileges. If you’ve been a member somewhere for a few years, that should buy you some goodwill – a thank you, some forgiveness if something goes wrong, a check-in, etc. That’s the whole point of membership – being part of something that people care about. We’ve devolved membership to be “Sorry to see you go.” as opposed to “What did we miss?”. If you’re building a program that requires membership, start first…
Whether it’s an office, a place of residence, a new job, school, whatever – Moving Day is always an exciting day. It’s the day where you take your “stuff” from Point A to Point B. And when you get to Point B, you get to change how you set it up before, you get to try something different, you get to rearrange everything. Moving Day shakes up the status quo in a way that keeps…
There are many stories of developers retiring and going into the forest, dropping all technology behind them and just being with nature. I don’t think this is true for just developers but for any job where there is a great deal of complexity that lives within our minds where the simple task of “dumping” everything out is cathartic and our minds are left to wander. Oddly enough, part way through emptying my wandering mind I…
I’ve taken to reading the autobiographies of singers and bands I grew up with. What is consistent in each biography – they were all looking for something bigger than themselves, and they were willing to work for it to get there. Doesn’t matter where they came from, or how creative they were, they were all willing to work for it and they had the drive to not give up on it.