Improvement requires specificity and restraint.
You can’t improve everything all at once.
You must pick something to improve rather everything, because everything will become nothing.
Tag Archives: Performance
Use your limits correctly
Limits are neither good nor bad.
Setting a target can mean you fail to achieve a better result because your target is too low.
Limiting your resources can unleash creativity.
Make sure you are putting the right limits on yourself.
The Wisdom of the Crowds
Experts have their place.
Crowd feedback has their place.
Your job is to know when to use either to get the best result.
How to learn from Failure
Setting up what success means at the start of the project is important.
Learning that your assumptions at the start were wrong is smart.
Changing what success means when you learn through the project is wise.
Idea fight
Ideas should stand on their own two feet.
When you let who is saying the idea count more than the idea, you have popularity contests not idea fights.
Let them fight.
The Symptom Trap
People deal with the symptom, it feel like they have done something.
If you don’t deal with the cause, the symptom keeps happening so you haven’t done anything, just wasted your time.
Timing sucks
A great idea is worthless if you can’t get the team to do it.
Instead of trying to do the whole thing, can you implement smaller pieces of it to show your skill and credibility to gain traction to implement more?
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To The Lazy Ones!
The trouble maker in your team isn’t in opposition with you, they don’t believe in your core assumptions.
Assumptions aren’t facts and shouldn’t be a threat to your identity.
What if the trouble maker is right?
The Seven Errors You Might Be Making
A mistake isn’t a problem.
Many mistakes aren’t problems.
It is refusing to correct mistakes that creates the problem.
Updated Equations
Ability + incorrect problem = worthless
No ability + unsolvable problem = pointless
Ability + solvable problem = ego boost
Ability + challenging problem = Progress
Luke McMeeken-Ruscoe 