I did a presentation a little while ago that was a deep dive analysis on the probability of delivery of across a variety of factors. It looked pretty good on paper but then we got to the last page with all the caveats. Numbers are good, but caveats drive it home. Caveats are everything that needs to be in place for you to be a success, for you to align your team, for you to…
There is a direct correlation between news events and call spam. When the pandemic struck, there were many calls I started to receive for owed money (from fictitious departments… c’mon guys put some effort into it). Now that borders have opened between countries I am getting calls for packages I have ordered waiting at the border (maybe it’s that ruler I ordered four months ago). The point is, if your business is entirely driven by…
We all have them. We also don’t like to talk about them because admitting that we aren’t the best in our meetings would be tantamount to admitting that we are part of the problem when it comes to every meeting that we attend. And that’s the point. Every meeting you attend that goes sideways, you are part of the problem. You are also part of the solution if you’re willing to admit what has gone…
How often do you take a training course, never to use it again? Or go to a conference, drink from the firehose, and leave it all in the city that you visited for that one great week? The purpose of training is to take what you have learned, apply it and reap the benefits from it. Learning is great, but implementing what you have learned, applying it? That’s growth.
I used to work with someone who had an email signature that read – “Your failure to plan does not constitute an emergency on my part”. When I would be up late fixing bugs, I would come back to this line and think about this line – “whose emergency is this?”. You can’t plan for everything, but you can plan for your need. I recently finished a month-long planning and strategy session with a client. …