If you want to rank who is an expert in your company from 1 to n, you might be surprised where you land. This happens because we invariably rank ourselves in the context of the skills that we have, and not the skills that we need to have and/or don’t have. I.e., when you rank yourself, you’re ranking yourself against your own yardstick, not everyone else’s. Who sits at the top might surprise you because…
Right now, we are working towards finding the perfect gift for those special people in our lives. We are all starting early, trying as hard as we can to get a jump on things. But we all know, it will be a last-minute scramble. Some of us do our best work late with our back against the wall. All I ever think of, though, is that the right gift is always what the person isn’t asking…
You start off with a pile of work, and all you start doing is shovelling through them, you don’t stop, you just keep going and keep plowing through. You dig and you dig and you don’t stop digging. Then you’re partway there, the light is faint, but it is there. So you keep digging. And towards the end, you’re almost there, and then you decide to pull back, stretch, relax. And the worst thing you…
There it is, the truth, you will… always… miss… something. The goal is not to miss the big things, the things that matter most to you in life. It’s probably a combination of work and personal, as is the case with most everyone else. Missing a conference, missing a post, missing what someone else is doing. Doesn’t matter, you can’t see it all, and you need to stop trying to do. Zero in, focus on…
If you want to play at the level you want to be at, you’re going to have to show up the way they do. Know the work. Know the industry. Know the team. Know the deliverables. And if you don’t know all those things, then you’re going to have to get learning to get up to speed. If you don’t want to do that work, that’s fine; you’re not ready to play at that level…