Eheh We are so aligned this week. Tomorrow will go live my article about Trust. Is funny because I also speak about ownership, but I took a different route. I take a serious path over results. Is my approach to brute force my way to building trust. However, your approach implies a good communication with stakeholders, while in my article maybe I should have reinforced that aspect. Great piece 💪
What I really wanted to hear, back then, was "your thinking isn't wrong, it's right — just go with it." Nobody ever said it, so I figured I'd start telling it to myself.
I'd add something I've come to believe — that there isn't really a "right answer." There's only what fits the situation, and the fit itself shifts over time. So if someone has wrestled with something and arrived at their answer, that's enough for me. The process of sitting with it matters more than landing on the technically correct call.
What I try to do, on my end: tell people the things I'm aware of in advance — the watch-outs, the context they might not have. After that, the decision is theirs. And if it goes sideways, my job is to clean up afterward, not to make them carry it. The other piece is what I do with reports. When someone brings something to me, the first thing I want to acknowledge is that they didn't hide it. The contents matter, sure, but the decision to bring it forward, even when it would be easier not to, is what I want to honor first.
Eheh We are so aligned this week. Tomorrow will go live my article about Trust. Is funny because I also speak about ownership, but I took a different route. I take a serious path over results. Is my approach to brute force my way to building trust. However, your approach implies a good communication with stakeholders, while in my article maybe I should have reinforced that aspect. Great piece 💪
Thank you man. Can’t wait to read your article 🙂
What I really wanted to hear, back then, was "your thinking isn't wrong, it's right — just go with it." Nobody ever said it, so I figured I'd start telling it to myself.
I'd add something I've come to believe — that there isn't really a "right answer." There's only what fits the situation, and the fit itself shifts over time. So if someone has wrestled with something and arrived at their answer, that's enough for me. The process of sitting with it matters more than landing on the technically correct call.
What I try to do, on my end: tell people the things I'm aware of in advance — the watch-outs, the context they might not have. After that, the decision is theirs. And if it goes sideways, my job is to clean up afterward, not to make them carry it. The other piece is what I do with reports. When someone brings something to me, the first thing I want to acknowledge is that they didn't hide it. The contents matter, sure, but the decision to bring it forward, even when it would be easier not to, is what I want to honor first.