Technical risk – Will it work? Market risk – Will they buy it? Emotional risk – Will people laugh at your crazy idea? Technical risk – Test it in the lab. Market risk – Test it with the customer. Emotional risk – Try it with a friend. Technical......
When your best isn’t good enough, how do you feel? When your best isn’t good enough, what do you do? But more importantly, when your best isn’t good enough, what does that say about you? If your best used to be good enough and now it isn’t, there are four......
When you see good work, say so. When you see exceptional work, say so in public. When you’ve had good teachers, be thankful. When you’ve had exceptional teachers, send them a text because texts are personal. When you do great work and no one acknowledges it, take some time to......
If the project could obsolete your best work, do it. Otherwise, do something else. But first, makes sure there’s solid execution on the turn-the-crank projects that pay the bills. If you always say yes to projects, you never have the bandwidth to do the magical work no one is asking......
What do we do next? I don’t know What has been done before? What does it do now? What does it want to do next? If it does that, who cares? Why should we do it? I don’t know. Will it increase the top line? If not, do something......
Without a problem, there can be no progress. And only after there’s too much no progress is a problem is created. And once the problem is created, there can be progress. When you know there’s a problem just over the horizon, you have a problem. Your problem is that......
What if you could see everyone as doing their best? When they are ineffective, what if you think they are using all the skills to the best of their abilities? What changes when you see people as having a surplus of good intentions and a shortfall of skills? If someone......
If you have more features, I will beat you with fewer. If you have a broad product line, I will beat you with my singular product. If your solution is big, mine will beat you with small. If you sell across the globe, I will sell only in the most......
If you know how what the system wants to be when it grows up, you can work in this line of evolution with 100% impunity. In that way, the key to success is learning how to see what the system wants to be when it grows up; learning to see......
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