A simple, repeatable system for doing great work on your team is to:
- Take a problem on your team.
- Work on it.
- Make it go away for your team.
- Ask for another problem.
- Then repeat steps 1-4.
I think this is a great system. It’s super simple, but simple doesn’t mean easy.
It’s made more difficult because there’s a thing missing…
How do you do those steps within the context of the problems and projects you work on?
Once you’ve got a problem or project (step 1), here’s a concrete system for working on it and making it go away (steps 2 and 3).
This is repeatable and works for me every time:
This is prescriptive and incredibly actionable.
After a while, you’ll run out of things to do every week for the problem you’re working on.
Congratulations!
You’ve made the problem go away. Now go ask for another one. :)