Three Bullet Thursday - 20240530
#ThreeBulletThursday - Raising the Tide of Continuous Improvement and Applied Knowledge in Personal Life and Business. If this was insightful to you, please repost/share. #Inspiration #Leadership
*(Leadership / Words Matter) - Standards or Expectations:
Standard
- a level of quality or attainment
- an idea or thing used as a measure, norm, or model incomparative evaluations
Expectation:
- a strong belief that something will happen or be the case in the future
- a believe that someone will or should achieve something.
Expectations, involve the future, which implies a projection. The word should, in the definition, also implies a projection. Expectations are "placed upon" or "pushed down" on people. Expectations, automatically, involve judgement of or from others.
Standards are a bar. The bar can be set, the bar can be raised, the bar can be missed, the bar can even be set by a team, and the bar can be (most importantly) re-attained if missed.
I have a standard around putting out Three Bullet Thursday Every week. I was out on PTO at Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons, and I missed that standard. And that is OK. It doesn't prevent me from putting out Three Bullet Thursday again weekly, and getting back on a cadence. Re-attaining the standard.
Brain wise, what does this do? It reduces out judgement, guilt, and shame. It allows for course correction and re-attainment. It also allows for continuous improvement. Team building wise, how do you want your teams to feel? Inspired or Pushed down upon? What if you empowered your teams in creating the standards? Improving the standards? Think you might get more buy in?
Food for your personal and professional thought - quality questions. :)
On a separate note, also got to partake in some great experiences while out on PTO....
*(Inspiration / Where one MUST Visit) - Teton Teepee Lodge
Most of the world, likes to organize people into their separate little boxes. Hotels, are big boxes of boxes. This place was built in the 1970's and it was built around community. No, not a hostel, though. You get your private sleeping quarters and bathroom/shower, but the smaller size and no TV encourages folks to the common space. There is a grand central fireplace, tables and seating around the perimeter, and a bar breakfast tables near the center as well. Upstairs, on one side, you can have coffee while looking at the grand Tetons. Upstairs on the other, they have a grand TV room and a room with a card table and pool table. Downstairs they have a table shuffleboard, ping pong table, and darts. Outside, you can go sit by the river, or a fireplace.
The ambiance is energy changing. If you brought in worries, those evaporate. We spent a lot of time hiking the Grand Tetons, and came back to a warm fire, hot chocolate, and apple cider. On one of the snow days where the mountain pass wasn't so passable, we embraced just staying in, reading next to the central fireplace, and chatting with other folks about their adventures to date. It brought people back toward some community time. We're all on this earth journey together anyway. Sometimes less boxes are a good thing.
*(Inspiration) - Starship + Booster 4 Launch, June 5th (hopefully)
The pace of innovation keeps getting faster at SpaceX. Next goal, to get starship to re-enter, successfully. No-one has done fully re-usable tiles successfully yet. Yet. If you didn't see the sweet video with the plasma rolling off starship on IFT3, it's worth finding out on youtube. They're close to pulling it off. Last launch, booster tried to re-light and land itself in the ocean, but it didn't quite fire in time. In watching the estimates, was still at about a kilometer a second at impact. (yikes) They've got the data though and I believe they'll get it dialed in. Excitement guaranteed on this one below:
*(Inspiration) - Electric propulsion in Space.
Distance is often measured in time. We walked, we had horses, we had stage coaches (which fun fact, in Yellowstone, the towns are about 20 miles apart and that comes from the distance a stage coach could go in a day), we had cars, planes, rockets, but space is big. We've continually compressed distance by trying to get somewhere faster in time. Here's an interesting new step in propulsion below
"They are part of Psyche's incredibly efficient solar electric propulsion system, which is powered by sunlight. The thrust created by the ionized xenon is gentle, but it does the job. Even in full cruise mode, the pressure exerted by the thrusters is about what you'd feel holding three quarters in your hand. The orbiter is now more than 190 million miles (300 million kilometers) away and moving at a clip of 23 miles per second (37 kilometers per second), relative to Earth. That's about 84,000 mph (135,000 kph). Over time, with no atmospheric drag to slow it down, Psyche will accelerate to speeds of up to 124,000 mph (200,000 kph).
*(Leadership)
Recently, I became Agile Product Owner Certified. Not agile-ish, but true, proper agile. An interesting takeaway related to what to put into sprints. Make the sprint an end to end piece of the user journey. The sprint is time limited, but put the pieces in that lead to an outcome for the users, that still fit in the timebox of reasonable to get done in the sprint time. One example was related to a ski hill. You might be starting from scratch, and that is ok, but what is a key need for that user? Well, they are there to get on a hill to ski. So, sprint wise, for an app, might need to know what ski lifts are running, a map of the hills, and a login / password mechanism, for starters. That might be all that fits in that sprint. Again, that is ok. What it did do was get the end user on that hill to ski. Next sprint, maybe add more fidelity, pretty it up a bit. Next sprint, maybe the user needs to rest for a bit, where are those located, add concession areas and warming huts to the map. A user may have questions, so maybe a questions and feedback and common faq area for another sprint. When creating stories, sprints, step into the end users shoes, imagine their journey, or use feedback of users, to help craft the stories. When you pull them in to a sprint, ensure that it leads to a noticeable end user experience at the end of the sprint. The educational sessions helped put some refinement in my Agile practices.
*(Bonus Bullets)
- Want to get into Brain Science? Understand your Values? Redirect your life in line with your values? Put yourself on a path of Self Mastery? -- The Break Through Experience is the place to do it. A couple days of your time can open your awareness and start shifting the direction of your life.
- The thing is, life's magic isn't a substitute for networking, socializing, and “working.” To the contrary, these are some of its greatest incubators.
To the office,
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5 个月Loved the distinction between standards and expectations – it's a game-changer for personal and professional growth. Teton looks amazing and just what I needed, an excuse to visit Wyoming.