Remote work was easy when everyone was forced to be remote. We all had to do it, might as well figure it out. Now we’re not being forced to do it. Like anything when you’re not forced to do it, your desire to do it wanes, you pull back, you relax, you’re not at your most interested. What we did for those few years as Remote Workers, worked for that scenario, but those parameters don’t…
If your meeting is set up to simply “be there” and “discuss things”, your meeting will never amount to much. Meetings should have purpose, direction, creativity, and perseverance that roll themselves up into the ambition of what is trying to be achieved. You would code through the night to get your product out the door. You would work late into the evening to get the competitive analysis done before deciding what features to implement. You…
Everyone has their own narrative, everyone has their own story they tell themselves. Their hopes, their dreams, their purpose, their direction. It’s all wound up in your narrative. The goal of a leader is to get everyone’s narrative on the same page, everyone focused on the same narrative, everyone bought into it, and everyone working towards it. Directing the narrative is the first step to getting your team moving in the same direction.
We don’t know the problem until we know what it is. Everything up until that point is learning what the problem is. The faster you learn the problem, the sooner you know what to do with it. Everything else is noise, focus on the problem, plan the solution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwG4F-16Tno
People only look at the descriptions of your emails when they go to click the link to join the meeting. Otherwise, it’s an auto-accept. Your title is what will make or break the level of interest in your meeting. The excitement that enters the room. You want people coming in saying – “I don’t know what this is about, but I want to be here to hear it.” No subtitles – just one line to…