Maybe you’re the defacto expert who gets called on to fix things. You probably didn’t start out wanting to be that person – it just happened. Now you’re the “Expert”—but you don’t want to be, and you’re the expert only in what you need to know to overcome the problem you’re facing. The only way to stop being the “Expert” is to bring others into the fold, involve others, write documentation, push out information, and…
People might think you’re the Guru, they might think you’re the expert, and you might be revered as the superstar because of what you’ve done in the past. But you don’t know it all. And the quicker you state it, the quicker everyone stops waiting for you to figure things out for them. You don’t know it all, it’s better than okay to admit it. And when it starts with you, you’ll immediately see the…
Having a working Sump Pump during a rain storm, during a flood, can be your savior. A Sump Pump is a hole in your basement that has a pump in it, when the water fills up the hole to a certain level, the pump turns on and starts pumping that water out of your house. Your house is saved. When there is no water in the hole, the pump never runs. Depending on where you…
The Big Event is what you are getting ready for. The release of your software. The presentation you’ve spent the last month working on. The proposal you’ve spent the last week on. The purchase you’ve been saving for. The Big Event is whatever it is that you’ve been wanting to accomplish, working on it bit by bit each day. The Big Event is here – hope you’re ready.
The question when determining to undertake a pivot isn’t so much what you are going to pivot to as whether your team is going to be able to undertake the pivot. Pivots are executed by people not by products. The product is there to do what you tell it to do. The question will always be – “Can my team pivot, are they able to make this change?” Not all teams can, the follow-up then…