1. …speak only what everybody wants to hear;
2. …trust the wisdom of the crowd;
3. …generally have excuses ready for not doing something that matters;
4. …are afraid to get out of the status-quo;
5. …are reactive, almost always;
6. …never question the decisions you’ve taken in the past;
7. …believe that they don’t understand.

Start being exceptional instead – Being exceptional begins with presuming absolute personal responsibility of your actions and their consequences.

See Also:

1. Look for a Mediocre Profile Who Has Low Self-Esteem
2. Have you become enough experienced, Huh?
3. To Make a Difference…
4. Software Professional, Are You Developing Yourself As An Aspiring Mediocre?
5. A Better Way to Deal with Situations Worth Complaining About

1. Look for a Mediocre Profile Who Has Low Self-Esteem
2. Have you become enough experienced, Huh?
3. To Make a Difference…
4. Software Professional, Are You Developing Yourself As An Aspiring Mediocre?
5. A Better Way to Deal with Situations Worth Complaining About

1. Limit number of discussions per day, do something that matters instead.
2. Limit items on your to-do list; get the most important ones done instead.
3. Limit eating junk food; eat fresh fruits and vegetables instead.
4. Limit bullets on your PowerPoint; give a spontaneous presentation that doesn’t require a PowerPoint instead.
5. Limit complaining about your colleagues; get better at what you do instead.
6. Limit talking about yesterday’s achievements; chase your aspirations instead.
7. Limit your dream-time; start executing your dreams instead.

See Also:

1. A Better Way to Deal with Situations Worth Complaining About
2. Revealing Weakness 11
3. 25 Ways to Motivate Your People Without Giving Financial Rewards!

1. A Better Way to Deal with Situations Worth Complaining About
2. Revealing Weakness 11
3. 25 Ways to Motivate Your People Without Giving Financial Rewards!

There are a few grounds to stand a team member who makes inordinate requests:

• You anticipated you would;
• His skills are peerless;
• He’s a great grapeviner – has good political influence that you think would help you one day;
• Consequences of informing the client that you’ve sacked him are much worse ;
• He’s indispensible…

It’s probably worth sacking a team member if:

• He intentionally spoils inter-team relationships;
• Your project is suffering from him doing less than great work consistently;
• He’s politically unwise – makes you vulnerable;
• He diverts you from creating win-win-win for the customer, your company and your team members;
• He’s easily replaceable…

Many a time, leaders are afraid to sack their team members, no matter how inordinate or unreasonable their requests are.

Much stupid is to forget that the cost of NOT doing the right thing is ALWAYS to be paid, with interest.

See Also:

1. Zen of Team Handling for Software Projects
2. How To Inaugurate Effectiveness In Your Project Team
3. How Team Relationships Are Affecting Your Ongoing Projects?
4. If You Want to Have a Great Project Team
5. More On Better Team Relationships 12

1. Zen of Team Handling for Software Projects
2. How To Inaugurate Effectiveness In Your Project Team
3. How Team Relationships Are Affecting Your Ongoing Projects?
4. If You Want to Have a Great Project Team
5. More On Better Team Relationships 12

Oh yes, that’s also a part of our service offerings (although it’s not explicitly
mentioned)

Oh yes, we must open three of new branches in new geographies this year (although
my main business is not doing well)

Oh yes, we should alter some of our principles to fit the need (although this will
essentially kill the chief motive of the business)

Oh yes, I’ll have a dinner with them (although my spouse has to be alone)

Oh yes, you called me few minutes back (although I should do that important task
instead, let me ask at least)

Oh yes, I can solve your problem (although I don’t understand the subject much)

Oh yes, I’m willing to multitask (although I might deliver less than excellent quality)

Oh No! Do I know where I’m going? May be ‘No’ is a better default.

Often, Delivering is burdened with threats and perils.

Every time you stand up, send a text message, write a piece of software code, publish a blog post or write a tweet, you’re exposing yourself to disparagement. Not just disparagement, but the possible negative consequences that come with your actions.

It’s no wonder why most of us are afraid to deliver.

It’s uncertain if you are provided with more options, though. A life spent in safe harbor of the known seems less risky, but in fact, avoiding change and living a passive life is the most dangerous home for a human.

Considering the pace at the world moves, It’s certain that a passive, delivery-less life would turn out to be failure sooner than later.

You can’t get away with Delivering, then why to deliver passively?

While climbing the mountain, everyone gets exhausted. The winner is the mountaineer who unriddles how to lead the process of being exhausted and how to release is after the mountain is climbed up. Sure, he’s exhausted. Everyone is. That’s not the point. The point is to mount.

Learn how to bring harmony in the process of getting exhausted. Keep delivering despite all the odds.

See Also:

1. I’m not a project manager. Why do I need to learn project management?
2. Smart as a Whip 101
3. Are You (too) Searching for Someone to Check Your Work?

1. I’m not a project manager. Why do I need to learn project management?
2. Smart as a Whip 101
3. Are You (too) Searching for Someone to Check Your Work?

1. Keep complaining
2. Be a Yes-man
3. Take shortcuts
4. Do not tell the truth
5. Threaten your people
6. Operate in your own silos
7. Offer compelling excuses
8. Opt for short-term, sacrificing the long-term
9. Show respect only to strong people, not to all.
10. Do not show your gratitude publically
11. Keep shouting on subordinates

Become aware of how you behave. Everyone around you anyways notices it.

See Also:

1. Weakness 17
2. My Happy Clients 12
3. Know how to walk first, running comes later.
4. Effective listening leads to effective actions and thus, better execution!
5. What Matters to You? Beiing Nice or Being Honest?

1. Weakness 17
2. My Happy Clients 12
3. Know how to walk first, running comes later.
4. Effective listening leads to effective actions and thus, better execution!
5. What Matters to You? Beiing Nice or Being Honest?

There are two problems with complaining.

First, it doesn’t work. You can complain about your company, your country or your friend’s cooking habits but nothing will change except you’ll end up wasting your time.

Second, complaining has a boomerang gist. When you get good at complaining, you start noticing evidence that makes your complaints even better. So you magnify that and plunge yourself in it, thus creating more situations worth quetching about. For you and the others.

Much better is to start taking actions that change the situations worth complaining about into the better ones. No matter how small the actions are.

Unless talking equates doing in some situations, less of talking and more of doing is always good, isn’t it so?

Since they have the power to teach us something, situations worth complaining about are not bad, but certainly, complaining about them is.

See Also:

1. Revealing Weakness 11
2. Directness, A Deviant Act That Is More Than Worth In Agile Project Management
3. Have you become enough experienced, Huh?
4. What You Can Learn From a Difficult Boss
5. How To Be ‘Cool’ Even In The Situations Full Of Stress

1. Revealing Weakness 11
2. Directness, A Deviant Act That Is More Than Worth In Agile Project Management
3. Have you become enough experienced, Huh?
4. What You Can Learn From a Difficult Boss
5. How To Be ‘Cool’ Even In The Situations Full Of Stress