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…
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…
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…
There is a path, you haven’t been on it before, others have, to you it’s unknowable. It’s not the way you would do it. It’s not how you would word it. It goes against how you’ve done things in the past. It flips the script. All these reasons and more… are the reason you need to do it. The Unknowable Route is the one where you don’t know how things will turn out, where you…
Teams grow based on numbers, skills, and deliverables. They don’t grow overnight. It doesn’t happen over an interview. The first time you meet, you are not a team, you are a group project, thrown together to see what you do. It’s your first deliverable that makes you a team and starts your path to growth – what next, what else can we accomplish, who else do we need, what do we do next – these…