The Challenge of any Leader is to lead the team today with an eye on tomorrow. You’re always leading a battle on two fronts – today and tomorrow – and it’s one that no one ever sees happening, but daily, it’s happening in your mind as you run through team personalities, external factors, changes in technologies, deadlines, and commitments. Everything and anything. The trap is getting stuck in today because of what might happen tomorrow…
Remote work was easy when everyone was forced to be remote. We all had to do it, might as well figure it out. Now we’re not being forced to do it. Like anything when you’re not forced to do it, your desire to do it wanes, you pull back, you relax, you’re not at your most interested. What we did for those few years as Remote Workers, worked for that scenario, but those parameters don’t…
If your meeting is set up to simply “be there” and “discuss things”, your meeting will never amount to much. Meetings should have purpose, direction, creativity, and perseverance that roll themselves up into the ambition of what is trying to be achieved. You would code through the night to get your product out the door. You would work late into the evening to get the competitive analysis done before deciding what features to implement. You…
We don’t know the problem until we know what it is. Everything up until that point is learning what the problem is. The faster you learn the problem, the sooner you know what to do with it. Everything else is noise, focus on the problem, plan the solution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwG4F-16Tno
We go onto wikipedia to find the plot of a movie we didn’t want to watch the rest of or a book we didn’t want to finish. We have that innate urge to know what happened because as we sat there reading or watching, we couldn’t figure it out. The same goes for your team, if you can’t find the plot, if you can’t direct it, if you can’t call it out – all your…