What is fit?

October 29, 2020

What you talk about adding to the team, soon enough, you start talking about fit. But what is fit? Assuming you’re starting from a good base, part of it is about being... READ MORE

Disruption waxes

October 26, 2020

It happens to all of us. One of our team, a once perfect fit, is no longer in the right place at the right time. The team grows around them and... READ MORE

The annual

October 25, 2020

The problem with a formal annual review is the formal and the annual part. Weird and uncomfortable as they can be, often overwhelmed with form filling and box ticking, it seems most... READ MORE

Both types

October 20, 2020

There’s what I’m working on and then there’s what we’re working on.  What I’m working on are the tasks. The code, the numbers, the documents, the conversations, the relationships, the actual... READ MORE

A bench

October 11, 2020

As soon as you get beyond the stage where you can do everything on your own, you put people around you. In the early days, it’s possible that what you need... READ MORE