October 2, 2024
Picking Your Team
You don’t pick your team. Your team picks their leader. And maybe that will be you, whether in title or not.
Articles for category: Leadership
September 29, 2024
Lead the Calm
When Leading your team out of the storm, they aren’t looking for Thunder and Lightning. They are looking for calm. They are looking for someone to lead them out of the storm with calm. Lead them that way.
September 28, 2024
We Must Be Doing it Wrong?
If you’re saying this, if you’re thinking this. You probably are. You might be using product x correctly, but you now know that this is not the way you want to do things so in effect – yes you are doing it wrong. Don’t stop at GO, Don’t collect $200 – figure it out to get back on track. This feeling you have – this is the nascent birth of Technical Debt that many live with for way too long because they ignored this feeling.
September 27, 2024
Delaying Leadership
This is different from Delayed Leadership. Delaying Leadership is when you know there is a need, you know there is a problem, and you can’t put your finger on it, but something is broken somehow, somewhere and your team needs help. But, this involves change, it requires a grinding of the gears, a breaking of things that are, and acknowledging that something different has to be done. So we actively work to delay any changes to leadership because that’s easier than identifying that there is a problem and doing the hard work to fix it.
September 26, 2024
Delayed Leadership
Delayed Leadership occurs when there is no leader, and a gap emerges from the time leadership was needed to the time someone stepped up to do the job. Perhaps it was the time it took to find the right person but more likely, it was the acceptance that we needed someone to have Leadership, to recognize we had a problem that led to the initiative of Leadership occurring. The former gets you on the right path sooner, the latter is a painful exercise in trying to convince ourselves that we’re okay, when we’re not until it’s absolutely too late to