Smart people double check their work.
For number 8 of my #40mantras I move into what are called habits of mind. These are techniques that can be learned, and double checking your work is the first of them.
Month: February 2014
The best idea wins – regardless of who shares it.
The seventh of #40mantras isn’t just focused on brainstorming. It comes into play across the entire organization, almost daily. Because it changes how you hear.
We do the hard work. That’s why they pay us.
My 6th mantra has nothing to do with getting paid. It has everything to do with how we make choices and decisions. Particularly how we don’t make choices.
Embrace constant reinvention. It’s the only way to speed up.
Everyone gets comfortable with how they do things. We develop routines so we don’t have to think. And the 5th mantra helps us embrace a certain kind of destruction.
All management is People Management
My fourth mantra is debatable. I know that. But the essence of it has proven true over so many years that I have come to rely on it like all the other #40mantras.
Things aren’t done until they’re #DoneDone
My third mantra is one you’ve likely heard, even if you don’t work for me. I use it everywhere – even at home. My kids know what #donedone means. So should you.
You know who’s in charge of your development? YOU.
This is the second of forty mantras that I have developed and used over the last two decades in managing high performing teams.
Hope is not a strategy
Of all the mantras I use to build high performance cultures and to coach my engineering teams, this is one of the first things they have to learn.