Software may be eating the world, but the hardware elements of a startup’s work define when lunch is served. Hardware takes longer than software. With hardware, after the product and its parts are designed, companies are vetted/selected to make the parts; contracts are signed to make the parts; the parts......
Do the project right or do the right project – which would you choose? If you improve time to market, the only thing that improves is time to market. How do you feel about that? Customers pay for things that make their lives easier. Time to market doesn’t do that.......
If you try to change what you cannot, your trying will not bring about change. But it will bring about 100% frustration, 100% dissatisfaction, 100% missed expectations, 0% progress, and, maybe, 0% employment. Here’s a rule: If success demands you must change what you cannot, you will be unsuccessful. If......
When you do something for a long time, the physical and mental muscles you exercise get stronger and you get better at that activity. But where the muscles you use get stronger, the ones you don’t use atrophy and you get worse at all the other things. When you do......
When you catch someone doing good work, do you praise them? If not, why not? Praise is best when it’s specific – “I think it was great when you [insert specific action here].” If praise isn’t authentic, it’s not praise. When you praise specific behavior, you get more of that......
If you have nothing to say, be the person that doesn’t say it. If you’re not the right person to do it, you’re also the right person not to do it. Why is it so difficult for to stop doing what no longer makes sense? If it made sense to......
The Idealized Future State (IFS) is all the rage these days. The idea behind it is the team defines the IFS so it can then define the steps needed to achieve it. The IFS is just what it says it is – a description of the perfect state of our......
Here are the top blog posts (in descending order) from the previous twelve months. The short descriptions give some context for the posts and my intentions for writing them. Thanks for reading. Mike When You Have Enough… The post describes behaviors that demonstrate you have enough and the benefits......
Credibility built – when the situation is not good, you say “the situation is not good.” And when things went poorly you say “things went poorly.” Trust built – when things go well you give away the credit. Credibility built – when you provide a controversial perspective and three years......
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