Category: Blog

I often encounter complex situations when the Owner of a product can’t decide which way to go.

It’s hard, it’s complex, because there are so many variables, so many inputs to consider, so many outcomes.

At the end of the day, though, someone’s got to make the call and decide which one is the way to go.
Freezing everything in the hope that the world, destiny or simply luck will make it clearer it’s not a useful strategy.

Why? There are many cases when waiting doesn’t give a definite solution. Unless we know that the answer will come on a specific date, the it’s hard to predict what to do and there’s only one person who should do it. The owner of the product.
She’s the key to unlocking every single decision, otherwise no one else will have the courage to step it.

“But I don’t have enough X, how can I do it?”
Ask for it, ask for help, and if it’s impossible, make it clear you’re choosing based on what you got, that you might be wrong, but waiting might be even more expensive than choosing the wrong way.

We need more courage. Courage to fail, to test, to experiment, to push the boundaries and go the extra mile.
Too often we’re being paralyzed by useless fears, many of which could be neutralized if we only considered how much worse will it be if we don’t do nothing.

Doing nothing has a price to pay, the only advantage is that it’s not paid instantly. You pay it when it’s too late, so better be ready.

When you have a child your life changes in way you didn’t expect.

First and foremost: It starts (your life) revolving around her/him.
She will be the starting point of any choice, of any destination.

It seems like breaking up habits, abandoning the good things, but in fact is adaptation. Things change, you change, it’s a change after all.

Life around a child is not easier, it shouldn’t be. It’s a step up in the game where you have to choose what you’re after. Your wellbeing, her wellbeing, or your family’s wellbeing.

It seems obvious when written, it’s not so obvious when you need to make it happen.

I hope this has never happened to you, but did you have a friend that got a pretty serious disease?

He’ll most likely try to hide his situation, his illness. In case of chemo, he might wear a hat or add some extra hair, in case of severe depression of addiction he might express extra joy to distract.

When we catch a disease our body react differently and for once in our life we don’t feel immortal. We feel like we could lose it all, we feel vulnerable.

As humans our first reaction is to hide our status, fake it as if nothing is happening, even though it’s tragic.

But a disease doesn’t make us less of what we are. So why hide it into the first place?
It’s the idea that we are perfect and we can be perfect, the idea that we can escape death, get another round.

But there are no extra rounds.

Wealth is always perceived as an abundance of things. Ownership of houses, boats, businesses.

I’ve loathed the rich for a long time. I was raised in a family with modest earnings and I understood that money can come and go in a minute.

While I was growing I understood that, as with many parts of life, there are many sides of it. Many different kind of wealth to be aware of.

Wealth is not about what you show to people: The rolex, the house, the boat.

Wealth is about what you _have_. The things that belongs to you in a deeper level.
In a way you could see true wealth as the things that are tied to you and, in some special ways, as the things you belong to.

Did you ever though “It’s not my job, I shouldn’t do this” during your job?

The conflicting battle inside your head to determine: Is it worth it? Should you continue or not?

When this happens it’s usually caused by three reasons

1. You don’t want to do it (because you’re frustrated or other things)
2. It’s out of your responsabilities
3. Someone else should do it

When it’s worth it then?
There are times when it’s ok to rebel and don’t do it. Those times help people who should take ownership of the problem realize there’s an area that’s not covered, an area no one is caring about.

The times when you should really do it are when it burdens your team if you say no.

Those are the times when it’s critical to _not_ hold the line. Your team should always come first because if you fail, if they fail, we’re all going to fail.
It’s often counterintuitive because we tend to think about “Others”. What “they” should do. Knowing that hinders our thoughts because we related to the problem. We are working hard and _they are not_.

Nonetheless it’s important to protect our work, not as individuals but as a group, because the things we can accomplish as a group are much greater than the one we can accomplish alone.