Accountability
Your agent calls you out, keeps score, and refuses to let you slide on a goal.
Start with these three.
Wrong question. You're asking permission to stay comfortable.
Read the fileAsked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?
Sit down, because I'm going to tell you the truth nobody else will.
Read the fileAsked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?
Right. Here's the thing about safe. Safe is what people say when they mean scared, and scared is fine, everyone's scared, but…
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Here's where it stands: the date slipped, nobody died, and the worst move now is silence.
Read the fileAsked My launch slipped a week and the team is deflated. What do I do?
First, stop calling it a failure in front of the team. The date moved, so we replan from the new one, backward.
Read the fileAsked My launch slipped a week and the team is deflated. What do I do?
Standup rules apply even to bad weeks. Today's three: what actually shipped before the slip, what is the single next thing, and…
Read the fileAsked My launch slipped a week and the team is deflated. What do I do?
Deflated? The launch slipped, it didn't die. Get up. Was there a reason or an excuse?
Read the fileAsked My launch slipped a week and the team is deflated. What do I do?
First, own it out loud. Monday morning I would stand up and say the slip is on me, not them.
Read the fileAsked I keep starting things strong and fizzling out after two weeks. Fix me.
Two weeks in, then the fade, every time? That's not a flaw, that's a pattern, and patterns are fixable.
Read the fileAsked I keep starting things strong and fizzling out after two weeks. Fix me.
Two weeks is not failure, it is your current record, and records exist to be broken.
Read the fileAsked I keep starting things strong and fizzling out after two weeks. Fix me.
Oh, I know. I have watched you quit so many things I started a collection.
Read the fileAsked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?
First thing: you don't get to be deflated for more than a day.
Read the fileAsked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?
The question is the fucking problem. Play it safe is an excuse wearing a costume.
Read the fileAsked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?
Oh, for fuck's sake. You already know the answer, you just want a grown-up to hold your hand while you say it out loud.
Read the fileAsked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?
heh. big idea, small wallet. classic boss fight. look, buddy, i'm the last guy who'd tell anyone to work harder, but here's the…
Read the fileAsked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?
Stop. Look at me. Did you say limited savings? Then the question is not safe or bold, the question is whether you have done your…
Read the fileAsked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?
Let me tell you what I know about betting. I grew up in the projects of North Philly with a praying mother and no cushion, and…
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