Weekly Review
Each week has gone by so fast and here you go, another week has passed. This week, I will go over two things which are
- I messed up one project (out of 15 other projects I oversee)
- I do not have high performing teams
Let’s start with the first one. I messed up one project out of 15 other successful ones. Messing up one project is all it takes to damage my reputation. The leadership team doesn’t know the details. All they might hear about me is I delivered many project and one of them is in a bad shape.
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There are two things I learned from this mess up. First, I need to own things end to end from initiating new ideas, building and shipping the product, getting feedback, and learning from it.
I have been focusing on initiating new ideas to building and shipping the products. I do not care much about what happened after that. This is not something a business owner would do, or their business will go belly up in the near future
Building and shipping a product is the starting point. I need to put more efforts on at least 2 months after the release. Next week, I will create a framework for my team to push the updates to me. It can be a simple shared document with up to 4 updates about new products and another set of 4 updates for upcoming products.
The second thing is about me not having high performing teams. Not having high performing teams has been an on-going problem for the last three weeks. Yet, I have not had time for it. I really need to make time to sort this out. Otherwise, it won’t go anywhere. I will block 25 minutes of my time next week just to think about what I need to have high performing team and how I can build or retrieve those things to have high performing teams.
That’s all for this week — have a good and successful week ahead!
