What product are you shipping? Is it your code? Your writing? Your art? It probably isn’t what you think it is and/or at least not in the tangible form that you would associate with being a typical product. It’s something more, something bigger. Your value. Your integrity. Your work ethic. Your drive. Your delivery. Your initiative. Maybe it’s all these, maybe it’s more – but that’s your product, that’s what you’re shipping, that’s what people…
You bring more than you think. Not just the technical ones. Not just the school ones. You bring the new approaches, the experience, the fresh starts, the ideas, the desire for change, the eagerness, the growth, the passion, and the execution. These are the skills you bring, these are the skills that there are countless LinkedIn articles on what you truly need to bring to a job. And you bring them all. Don’t discount that…
But everyone is going to be hoping you take the lead. That’s how it works. If people knew how to give the lead, they wouldn’t be giving it, they would be running with it, but they can’t, so they are, once again, asking you to lead. The question isn’t whether you can lead, the question is whether you will lead, whether you are going to take the lead and run with it. Once you have…
You start here. Today. Now. If the group you are with doesn’t want to start, it’s the wrong group for you to be with. If all everyone wants to do is complain about the problem, then go work on the problem. You don’t need to be part of the meeting, and meeting and meeting and meeting to keep talking about the problems. You know what the problems are. Now go and fix them.
The hardest question you will be asked and there are so many ways to get there; Have a workshop – list everything out. Break into groups and build a focus around a problem. Ask each person what their Top 5 issues are, come back together, and go through them. Appoint someone to lead, give them your trust, and let them loose. Ask everyone to write a paper, and review the papers. Get anonymous suggestions from…