Articles for category: Delivery

21 hours ago

Greg Thomas

Get Out of the Way

Let your team work. You don’t need to ask them every day what they did – you need to trust them. You don’t need to check in every few moments – you need to give them time. You don’t need to prompt them for updates – you need to wait for them to come to you. They haven’t forgotten about you; they are trying to work so they can give it to you. They are not an AI Agent, so stop sending them prompts. Get out of their way, let them work; I swear you’ll be amazed.

Flying Cars

Woot! Woot! Flying Cars are here; they came in my lifetime. This is great news. Love it. I still am not big on flying, so not sure I want to be strapped to an even smaller vehicle twisting and turning through the air. That’s awesome, great news. Now if only I didn’t get prompted 20 times a day by Authenticator, that would be progress.

Getting the Work Done

Work gets done when you sit down, put the timer on, put yourself into DND, and work the problem. We used to strive for focus time and the zone moment – now we don’t. But THAT was where all our work was getting done. So go back to it, find your ZONE moments, and get the work done that needs to get done.

Meeting Overload

Is the problem too many meetings or not enough time between meetings to do the work? It’s one or the other and until you ask the real question, you’ll never get to the right answer.

Tracking It

I waver between tracking everything and then nothing. I can’t lie, I like seeing the stats and the progress – I’m a sucker for charts – and I like tracking my process in goals and tracking. And sometimes there reaches a point where I’m too busy, and I don’t track it. And then I start again. Some would call this lack of consistency or focusing on priorities. Whatever the case, I know I’ll start again once I get out of the busy season, but for now – I’ll focus on getting the work done and come back to it. All