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?
A sponge absorbs everything around it. It doesn’t expel it all correctly, but absorbing is what it does perfectly. If you can be a sponge and absorb everything, focus on that one great thing, you’re far ahead of so many you aren’t even doing that. Be the sponge that absorbs it all, everything else will fall into place from there.
It’s not that you haven’t had time. It’s that you haven’t MADE the time. Put it this way – you don’t write things down for yourself, you know what you are doing, where to do it, and what happens when things go sideways. You’re writing it for the person who comes after you, who needs to figure all that goodness out. You’re writing it for the person on your team that isn’t here, that hasn’t…
The team that takes the time out, the team that takes a step back and ponders what is happening, the team that puts all pencils down because something is just plain and clearly wrong. Is the team that will always come through in the end. That moment to regroup, that hour, or the day it takes to do it, will serve the team better than continuing to plow through on the wrong thing. Give your…
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…