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📅 August 9, 2022 Grow From Failures ⏱ 2 minutes read

Status Reporting – The Simple Solution For Avoiding Big Problems

Few things cause excitement like the phrase, “status reporting.” Yes, I know you are already quivering from anticipation, but that is our topic. This episode looks at how much confusion could have been avoided…

📅 August 4, 2022 Grow From Failures ⏱ 2 minutes read

Smart Scheduling – Including Buffer So It Can Flex

Our approach to becoming a better developer requires planning. Likewise, we need smart scheduling to hit our targets. That is the focus of this episode. I look back at a time when I overloaded…

📅 August 2, 2022 Grow From Failures ⏱ 3 minutes read

Making Good The Enemy of Better

There are many mistakes we make related to pushing too far or not pushing enough. The latter is where we make good the enemy of better. More precisely, good enough becomes our goal instead…

📅 July 28, 2022 Grow From Failures ⏱ 3 minutes read

Proving Your Worth – Understand Expectations

It is not at all uncommon to focus on proving your worth when you start a new job or enter a new environment. However, we expect more than others. We often make the mistake…

📅 July 26, 2022 Grow From Failures ⏱ 2 minutes read

Differences In Perception – A Stupid Bet

There are many fights and arguments that start from differences in perception. Whether it is the line-of-sight, angle, or bias, we have differing views. These can cause reasonable people to take starkly different positions…

📅 July 19, 2022 Grow From Failures ⏱ 2 minutes read

A Positive Attitude and Finding Hidden Gems

Sometimes a story is full of lessons without having a well-defined core. There are many players, and the successful have a positive attitude. This trend supersedes mistakes, errors, and even bad luck. We look…

📅 July 14, 2022 Grow From Failures ⏱ 2 minutes read

Trust But Verify – Avoid Business Assumptions

There are multiple lessons to learn from this little debacle of a story. However, trust but verify seems to be the best summation. We have to assume a lot in business. There are levels…

📅 July 12, 2022 Grow From Failures ⏱ 2 minutes read

Know Who You Work For – Lines Are Not Always Clear

Clarity and communication are common themes in our improvement episodes. Those are most important when you need to know who you work for. Which master do you serve? The mistake highlighted this time is…

📅 July 7, 2022 Grow From Failures ⏱ 2 minutes read

Admitting Defeat – Moving Forward And Accepting The Loss

In a season about growing from errors and mistakes, it seems that an episode about admitting defeat is required. We cannot stay stationary and make progress. This concept holds for individual situations and group…