Short-form information is meant to get the idea out there – to take what is in your mind, put it to paper, and have it written down somewhere. Short-form work is never perfect and is always at the idea or launch pad stage. Long-form information is thought out, it’s been reviewed, it has jump-off points, references, whatever it is can stand on its own and survive, it doesn’t need to be clarified because everything that…
For the first time ever I’ve had to start using a roller on my calf. I’ve watched people use them over the years and always thought – not me, I won’t need it. Now I do, now it’s something I’m using to stop a muscle from seizing up. Just because you didn’t use it before, or didn’t know about it before, isn’t a reason for you not to give it a shot now.
In Managing Tasks, it was all about your work but what about when you are having to manage other people’s work? What do you do when you are responsible for someone else’s work but you’re not the one that is doing it? What do you then? We all lay out our work differently but when I’m responsible for what someone else is delivering the requirements are still the same; Do I understand what you have written? …
When we want something from another person, we generally don’t know what steps are involved to get it done. And that’s mainly why we are asking them to do that task for us – because we don’t know everything that goes into doing it right. As the person who is then implementing that task, the challenge then becomes, how do you keep them updated on your work if they don’t know what has to be…
Everyone answers yes to this. Yes, I want to learn something new. Yes, I can learn something new. Yes, I am a sponge, feed me with all this newfound knowledge. But then when it’s time to put into practice what has been learned, to go through the uncomfortable steps to unlearn the bad and get better, we stop, we grind to a halt and we decide that we really don’t want to learn, to change,…