The Big Event is what you are getting ready for. The release of your software. The presentation you’ve spent the last month working on. The proposal you’ve spent the last week on. The purchase you’ve been saving for. The Big Event is whatever it is that you’ve been wanting to accomplish, working on it bit by bit each day. The Big Event is here – hope you’re ready.
Don’t worry about the closing. Worry about the challenging. If you’re always there, you’re always working, you’re always pushing, you’re never giving, you’re keeping going (like this sentence) – then you are doing the right thing. Always be Challenging.
The question when determining to undertake a pivot isn’t so much what you are going to pivot to as whether your team is going to be able to undertake the pivot. Pivots are executed by people not by products. The product is there to do what you tell it to do. The question will always be – “Can my team pivot, are they able to make this change?” Not all teams can, the follow-up then…
Can you challenge your team? Not by giving them more work, but by questioning why they undertook a certain strategy, why they are following a certain pattern, what did they choose library A over library B? Can you ask them a question and have a discussion, not to assert your knowledge and authority but to learn and grow through asking why? The best teams ask each other why all the time, not for ego, but…
I buy your product, and you get my money. We have a partnership, and we are working together. If I don’t like your product, ranting and raving about it, but it never comes to you, that does nothing for our partnership. If I’m using your product incorrectly, that doesn’t mean you have a bad product, that means we have a disconnect, and if not talked about, does nothing for our partnership. There is always a…