March 29, 2024
When things go wrong, there are three things you need to do. Reset – it is what it is, let it go. Regroup – get everyone back on the same page, forget what happened, get them focused on where they need to be. Relaunch – Push forward once again. Many teams get hung up on Reset, they can’t let it go, they refuse to let it go, and they never get the chance to regroup and try again. If you can get past the reset, the other two become that much easier.
March 27, 2024
After you ship, after you deliver, after you have the moment of “I did it”, there is a time for taking a break and patting yourself on the back. You did it. You got here. You survived. But don’t rest too long, don’t rest on those laurels too long, otherwise you won’t get back to doing what needs to be done. Which is finding the next Ship.
March 26, 2024
Take as long as you need. But get there. If you’re not planning on getting there, abandon it. There are things that have a time crunch on them, figure out if it’s for you or not (perhaps it’s not). That’s okay. What isn’t okay is rushing to get things done and making a mess of it.
March 22, 2024
Old ideas don’t die. They get re-packaged, updated, built upon, and shipped in something different and better than before. They evolve. Just because you did something before and it didn’t work, doesn’t mean it won’t work this time with a few tweaks to it.
March 13, 2024
If it’s “not much” – chances are they aren’t as good as they should be. If you are the one running them and that’s your answer, I’d put a pause on them now. Of all the people in the room, you’re the one who needs to be getting the most from those meetings and if you’re not, well there is a big, big problem. And if you don’t know what you need to get out of them, chances are your team doesn’t know either. You don’t need a meeting that gets you nowhere, you need value and this isn’t giving
