You wouldn’t attend a bad movie (or you might start and then leave?) You wouldn’t go to a bad restaurant? You wouldn’t continue going to a bad store you’ve had a continually bad experience with? So why keep going to a bad meeting where you are getting nothing out of? Where nothing good happens? Where all you get is a another 5 minutes of your life back at the end?
The day before the product goes out the door is the last chance you have to fit that last UX bug in. The last chance you have to make a simple update to the documentation. The last time chance you have to get it “right”. All these last changes, generally end in disaster, you miss a space, you break the build, it makes it worse than you thought. And you’re left with it being worse…
Otherwise, they never go anywhere. They stay on the ground, hoping to become something else, but they never go anywhere. Someone needs to pick it up, run with it, and hold onto it when the going gets rough – because that’s when it needs to be held onto the most.
Answers should not include… “I do this…” “I’m the best at this…” “My job is X…” “Only I can do that…” “I run this…” “I monitor that…” “I’m backup for Y…” What do you bring, not what you are, what do you bring to the team?
So I should continue doing nothing? If something happened when I did nothing why I should engage in more activity to do something? It’s a waste and effort of energy and what if nothing happens from me doing something, now I’ve spent all that time and gone nowhere. Confused? This is the circle of confusion where you are trying to convince yourself to do or to not do something. You can wrap yourself up in…