January 12, 2025
Your Place of work is anywhere you want it to be. Go to an office. Go to your desk. Go to a coffee shop. But make it useful, make it productive, make it valuable. If you’re not getting anything, it’s no longer your place of work. It’s just a place, but it needs to be a place where you get things done.
January 11, 2025
Detractors will never go away. I was surprised to see I wrote about this previously, many years ago. They aren’t there to help, they don’t volunteer, they don’t step in. They whittle at your efforts, they try to hold you back, and their job is to pull them down. With Detractors, it will always be the same – you can’t stop them, you can’t hold them back, you can’t engineer some way for them not to be there. You can only work through them and let them watch from the sidelines. And hope they join in.
January 10, 2025
This is the big question, when does the pilot end? Is it going on forever (i.e., the Beta program that lasts 2 years)? Does it end after 3 months? When does it become the “now normal” and not the hanger-on of ideas? What defines its success? What metrics matter? If you’re asking these questions while you are in the pilot, while you are doing the work, while it is happening, you are asking them at the wrong time. These are the questions that need to be answered BEFORE the pilot starts, BEFORE anything happens so that when you get to
January 9, 2025
The point of standups is to hear what others are doing. It’s a cue for what they are doing, for others to listen and jump in on. If you’re not listening, you’re not participating, you’re not there. It’s the listeners that make standups succeed, not the talkers. Listen.
January 6, 2025
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.
