People often confuse hard stuff with complex stuff. Most complex stuff is hard but not all hard things are complex. A lot of hard stuff is not complex. Getting in shape is not complex, it is just hard. Building a… Read More »Complex Stuff vs. Hard Stuff
If you are being promoted or hired as a lead or a manager, do you have a plan for the team or department? How will your first days and weeks look like? Which methodologies are you gonna use? How will… Read More »What is your plan as the new leader?
If you do not have a strategy, you are stuck. You do not know where you are, where are you heading, what you need to solve to get there. If you have a bad strategy, maybe you have wrongly identified… Read More »Bad strategy is better than no strategy
“When you’re in a startup, the first ten people you hire are the most critical. Each makes up 10% of the company. If three are not great, that’s 30% of your company!” https://noahkagan.com/what-i-learned-working-for-mark-zuckerberg/
I am noticing that many people focus on money first. How much am I going to get, what will be the raise, what will be my salary band, am I underpaid, why is XYZ making more than me. Nothing wrong… Read More »Caring about money vs caring about growth
While Top players do not give 100 percent all the time while playing and try to give enough effort to win, they train 100 percent all the time. Because if you train well, you are prepared to give 100 percent… Read More »Top players train 100 percent all the time
“Poor communication was later identified as a major source of production issues, and it also allowed me to be largely in the dark on the state of the project during development. By my reckoning there were two main ways that… Read More »Recommended Read: Total War: ROME II and Creative Assembly — My Statement Ten Years On
Watching sports, you can see, that the best players do not always play as good as they can. Sometimes the couches even leave them on the bench to rest. Somehow in business, we often want to give 100 percent all… Read More »Top players do not give 100 percent all the time
Even if the strategy you are following is clear for you, it does not mean it is clear for your team or teams you work with. Write it down, make it explicit. It will also help you find holes in… Read More »Write down your strategy
“The data shows that managers in the top quartile of utilization — a.k.a. those who work the longest hours — end up with employees who work up to 19% more hours relative to their colleagues who report to less highly… Read More »Recommended Read: What Great Managers Do Daily