You don’t need to defend your effort to anyone else. The results might not always be there, but those are your results. No one else’s. Your effort is your own. You’ll know when it’s not enough and you’ll get to be the judge when it isn’t. Everyone else is just noise.
Video games are known for having their secret paths, hidden levels, and easter eggs – all the things that no one can see at first glance and you find simply by roaming around. But the roaming around takes time. You don’t find these paths after 10 minutes of roaming, you find it after an hour, you find it in the least likely of places. And then when you find one, you apply the same trick…
Big deadlines, and big deliveries, no matter the level of planning you do, will always require some extra effort. There is no way around it, irrespective of the field you are in, that extra push always needs to happen. You hope for it to be a week, but then a week turns to 2 and then into a month. This is where your team needs your leadership, your guidance, and your experience to know when…
Set your goals, set your startup – don’t start drifting now. It’s tougher to come back when you’ve let yourself drift. Now’s not the time to start.
You can be productive and be creative. Productivity isn’t a factor that does everything a certain way without deviation. Productivity is committing to the goal and finding a path to get to that goal. When creativity enters the mix, productivity can go in a variety of different directions designed to help you try out new ideas and initiatives and grow. You can deliver consistently be productive and still be creative in the solutions you create.…