Don’t talk about it. Don’t do a post on it. Don’t evangelize it. Don’t youtube it, instagram it, snap it, tiktok it. Definitely keep it off of LinkedIn. Just be it, live it every day, and embolden your path and those around you. Remind yourself every morning what it is, and hold yourself to that standard. You won’t get as many likes, you might not get people flocking to your job portals and it probably…
We all say we are. But we aren’t. In some aspects we want to be coached, but only up to a certain level. And yet, when things go wrong the first thing we say is – “It’d be nice if I had someone helping me”. So what’s it going to be then? Do you want to be coached so you never have to say that or do you want to keep saying you’re coachable but…
I go in spurts of reading where I definitely don’t read as much as I should. But every time I go back to it, no matter how long I have stayed away from it. Every page and chapter I read, my mind becomes overflowing with ideas. It’s the kick to make you think of other ideas and maybe it’s not reading for you, but whatever it is, find it and keep doing it.
If you’re delivering your work and leading your team. Don’t worry about the things you miss. Focus on what it does and how your team is doing. You don’t need to have the flashiest presentation to look the best if you aren’t delivering anything behind it. The optics always take care of themselves.
Developers should be writing code in the current sprint. QA should be validating the code completed in the last sprint and/or bug fixes found in the current sprint. Product Management should be finalizing/confirming requirements for the upcoming sprint and answering questions for this sprint. Only take on what you can do “-1” – the “-1” being something is always going to go wrong, so cramming in your delivery to your topmost capacity is a surefire…