You never peak. If you don’t want to. If you keep learning, you never peak at learning. If you keep running, you never peak at running. If you keep trying, you never peak at trying. There is no peak; there is just another peak to attain.
Change and Management are two words that should never be put together. After all, who wants to “manage” change? Change is supposed to be fun and free-flowing, inspiring and exciting. It doesn’t need to be managed; it shouldn’t. And yet sometimes it needs to be done. Because when everyone on your team is changing everything, everywhere in the hopes of making things better, they don’t; they just manage everything, everywhere, and nothing else. So you…
You have tons of time. It’s how you are using your time that might not be what you’re fighting. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t relax and have fun. But it does mean you have a choice in what you do with your time. Don’t wait for people to give you your time; use it for yourself.
You might have an idea of what a market wants, but you won’t ever truly know until you put your work out there and see if the market bites. You can put out feelers, demos, and trials, but in the end, what only matters is what will come after that work. What you might find is that you have to build your market, and that might be the trickiest scenario of it all, because then…
You can’t win the race to the fast answer. But the race for the best answer, the one that provides the most value… That race is still happening. Yeah, AI is good, the answers are getting better, but there is still lots of value out there. Your team isn’t necessarily looking for the fastest answer; they’re looking for the answer that helps them grow, learn, and become better at their jobs.