Results & Relationships

If you're heading into vacation mode soon please create some space for yourself to explore your feelings and your own thoughts and patterns.   This space doesnt create itself just because you go on vacation. You need to make it happen, and not just for you but also for those in your care.

Today however cyberspace lets you pull ideas for what better looks like everywhere instead of in the industral age where the boss tried to teach you what they knew Help those around you create knowledge bases that others can pull from. Help those you work with create remarkable space and a place to pull the work that matter for (Kanban or anything help focus and asyncronus value creator and doesnt expect contact switching like email or meetings just because someone has the status to push you into one instead of sending a memo of what matters) Most work a knowledge worker does has a time-intervall to it. Rarely does you instantly act on a book you read - instead you pull from the books wisdom when your work benefits from it. Rarely does your urgent high-noise task mean important for the long-run. You need to learn to pull from both stacks of work. As the work becomes smaller and more and more work is expected learning to pull forth the work that matter, and help others create assets and knowledge management that works for them becomes critical. if you dont set personal boundaries and allow people to push things onto your plate without filtering you will loose all the work that really matter longterm. Work to see the pull and the push in your life. Help other see that dance and the tension between them.  Help others create space for creating a space from where they can pull forth to create their own future, and in doing so they will help elevate those around them   ps. Sorry for the audio. This is the first recording on rodecaster2 after using the rodecaster1 so I have some new stuff to learn

Skills, Decisions and organisations all are containsers rich with sunsets, fatigue and the halflife of enthusiasm. How come we dont talk about those when we could so we can focus on that which matter, accepting reality in the time-interval that might be?

Results & Relationships Predictions & Gifts You're living in a prediction Everything around you is based on predictions you've made. We surely get so much wrong versus the prediction but great enough to be happy anyway. (and quite often fool ourselve into it was a choice and intentional, not a bet and perhaps less intentionally) Getting a House Getting a Job Getting a kid Getting a spouse Learning a craft Giving something away - hoping it will be used not just put into a drawer or sold without changing something for the better for the one you gave it to Diving deeper thought Everything around you is also a gift from your former self We cant look in the rear mirror for a guarantee answer I love data, but its not all. I dont believe you'll totally change something without data, but just because you have data prooving a change is needed doesnt mean it will happen you can choose to commit, or let go. What got you here wont get those you serve there. what has got to go? what has to change, if any?

Ideas on the line Thoughts on ideas that I got wrong for most of my life is (and sometime still do) * You need to put yourself on the line for experiminting outside of those. I kept wishing I would find this "big AND safe" idea on my safe side of the line. * Distruptive and really great ideas never have guaranties, proof and deniability. Yet I find myself waiting for trying to find one that have at least one of that bad trio. * if it was that simple someone would have done it already. Why do I still keep trying to find a simple one? * I thought the idea had to be unique, new and fresh. Now I find it so much easier to say its "like this" slightly changed for.. Sort of putting your idea on the line next to another genre, book, industry or whatever then taking just a small step from there into the new thing.  The mistake I keep doing is jumping into the new idea without connecting it to existing things for those Im talking with. * Analytic's is not a guarantee for the future. Dare to make an assertion. work to figure out if its working and help those you serve see what you see. I trust data, but its not everything. * Leadership is NOT asking your team to give you X options and you choose the best one. If that was all it took, your team doesnt need you. The idea that matters are not that simple.  Be kind to yourself and create something real for those you want to help so you can test if its working for them. .. and a small rant on agile, MVP and what a focus on viable instead of minumum product might mean for those you serve.

Become Better at what -  Thinking about Minimum Viable Product, and Viable Skills longterm Your calendar and priorites tell a tale of your future if most of your day is meetings you most likley will become better at sitting in meetings. Ask yourself why you didnt send a memo instead. Clearer and saves everyone involved alot of time. If not - whats that about and whats the skill there'in you want to become better at? From the outside it might look like you're taking a very long crashboarse into how to work with wague unclear people.  Thats gimping your results. or the opposite. If you're programming for the same ecommerce platform again and again without no real intention. Like Bruce lee said. I fear not the one who have practiced a thousand kicks I fear the one who have practiced ONE kick a thousand times. but just doing what youre told as programmer is NOT putting yourself on the line in making better stuff so what IS that think you want to learn to be better at in your elite code-skills in agile we talk alot about Minumum Viable Product We dont focus our effort enough on the Viable part Viable means its actually helping the client get to where they need to go, from where they are. Scrappy solutions are ok to start with but focus on the actual customer  Not just that you moved something forward towards green.

in data definitions are everything and rarely do we take enough time to understand if we think the same about what goes into a value and what is NOT included into that value. What do you think about on these words for example? Projects Goals Strategy Actionable Analtytics KPIS Whats the verb they contain and their net effect? Whats their promise to those you serve and to yourself? Whats NOT included in them, what do you inentionally let go in order to get done what matters? what has to be true in order for these to work What can we wait with while prioritizing what if everything is a priority nothing is a priority is a strategy is just words its not a strategy if tactics cant be quit and replaced you're now following a strategy Often you dont need better data, bigger budget or waiting for the next project. you just just better leadership and clarity. How can you help those that matters see what they need to see?     My thoughts are that  * a goal without commitment and a project is a dream. Important to have but not work or something you're putting yourself on the line for. * a project without a goal is a hobbie. Important to have but you're unlikly to have an impact. * Strategy without clear above points are just illusions and bad leadership. A busines plan with numbers on them without data on actual paying customers or actions to exerpiment with is just wishful thinking - not a strategy, nor a tactic. Ask yourself. Who needs to see what you see in order to make change happen where it matters while there is still time to change direction of this ship? and who will thank you for bringing that tension onboard and who will not?

What's your definition of kind? Sometimes I need to remind myself that tension is needed for change, frictionfree is rarely kind. Sometimes I need to remind myself that candor is needed for change, holding it in because of fear might not be kind. What does kindness look like for you? Who among you inspire you to be kind and what do they do? and what effects does their actions bring those they're kind to?

get the work that matters done for those who care but dont forget to to put yourself for both getting the job done, learn on that job, and share what you've learned. its your responsibility to both yourself and those you want to serve to put yourself in those positions again and again.

Constraints are just bags with and within other bags of constraints - use it!     I'm sorry but I'm sick during the recording and you can tell. I'm also using a cleanly installed computer making the audio settings a bit different until I make time to set them. Still - hope it helps