When it comes to being a part of a team, we all buy into wanting the team to succeed. Why not? It’s why we’re there. At some point, the workload becomes too much (it always does) and the team struggles to find new paths for efficiencies and growth. It doesn’t happen quickly, they have to flounder and fight against the current because they are now not only fighting against what is ingrained within them but…
Wiki’s should never run your projects. They are a starting point, perhaps an informal collection of ideas. But once you start committing tasks to them, and putting work onto them you’ve now tasked yourself with the role of constantly updating them to show progress when what you should be doing is delivering the work to get done. Once you start managing the tasks and their display, you’re no longer doing your best work.
Every product has a dashboard or reporting function that “shows” stuff. What your team is working on? What tickets are open? How close are you to releasing? What your traffic levels are at? What your sales look like for this quarter? They all show a valuable metric that you can then take action on and do something with. But they require you to look at them, to incorporate them into your decision making and for…
How you get to where you want to get to, matters more, so much more than getting there. It defines who you are, what you are capable of what you hope to achieve, and how you are going to do it. Everything is about the journey to get there, the road you take, the path you lead on. It can be only, but it’s better than regretting your choices later on.
If you can’t handle the downs or act the same way when things go wrong. You probably don’t deserve the success or the wins that come along with it. Anyone can lead in the best of times, anyone can lead when things are going well. It takes a special few who can lead when things are going wrong.