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The risk of being wrong is always there. The issue is how you handle it? Don’t just do things before you think about the consequences. The risk of being wrong as a child is so much less important than the risk of being wrong as a young adult and those are so much different compare to the risk of being wrong as a middle age person. The higher you move in a company, the more you must think about what is the price you might pay if your ideas turn out to be wrong!

It is great for the company to communicate. But what would happen if they were under-deliver? What would happen if the communication was wrong, if the approach was simply wrong?   Then many people would have wasted their time, and the strategy will fail. So instead, find the balance between the right amount of communication and the right amount of quality being delivered.

Leadership tends to be around motivation and showing the direction. Every leader tries to look authentic in their message. But, you must know who’s game you are playing. The big shot game is the ego game, it’s the self-serving game. There is only one winner there. Why I am writing this? Look at one interesting article. The big game here, the game of the commission. You have famous people who care about one thing and sadly their followers will suffer while they put big bucks in their pockets. If you end up in the big shot game and you are not a big shot, it might be wise enough to leave fast while you are still in the lead. Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather Sued by Investors in EthereumMax Tokens The celebrities were paid to tout the tokens on social media Investor suit says EthereumMax has no relation with Ethereum Source : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-11/kardashian-mayweather-sued-by-investors-in-ethereummax-tokens  

There is a magic to start something new. The excitement, the opportunities… seem endless. But if you do something for many years and you are still considered a startup, that might be not the sign or the idea you want to invest more of your time. You must be very selective and very critical of what you are doing with your time and is it really worth it!

So maybe you are stuck? Maybe you don’t know the next step? Maybe you are scared to do something new? Now what? The economy changes, the inflation raised. And yet, we tend to do the same. This year is a wake up call for new opportunities and old ways of doing things you must leave out in the past. What are the things that don’t serve you anymore?  

It is very interesting when you meet people and they sell to you ideas. Sometimes the ideas are too good to be true. The only way of going forward is fine more testimonials or test it yourself. There is a risk of wasting time or risk to like a fool. But, think about SpaceX, wasn’t it an insane idea or Tesla or even iPhone? Testing assumption and taking risks is part of life. If you hadn’t taken calculated risk lately, think if your life is rich enough, or you are still stuck in a never ending repetitive pattern.  

The meetings must be short and have one goal. If you have developed software, all the functions must have a single purpose, otherwise it is hard to investigate. The same is true for meetings. It is hard to convince people to change their mindset.

If everything works fine, it is hard to be noticed. When a project is getting bad, then people start to notice you and once you go to crisis mode and manage to achieve resolution, you receive congratulations. This is a story and narrative some companies try to promote to their colleagues. This also shows the leadership appreciation. The issue in life is the balance between give and take. Once such an approach becomes the norm, then the company for sure will lose its market edge.

Town hall format meeting is an amazing opportunity to convey a message. It is an equally amazing opportunity to waste time with a lot of people. I have been to many town halls. I have seen some of them providing value and senior management listening to the feedback, but also I have seen many that are a waste. Why is that? Usually, the town halls are created and assembled when the strategy is set. There is no time to maneuver. The only thing people with power can do is to smiley and promise to follow up If you want to change the culture, then start from this mindset. If you want to gather input and have agile organization, then make sure you didn’t create the full strategy and plan time to ask for a feedback.

There is the challenge of taking the easy path or to take the right path. Unfortunately, when you try to develop new solutions, the easy and the right path are not always aligned. And this is when a true artist defers from a person who just wants to do their job. The artist is ready to spend the time and do the effort to walk the right path. But the other person will do the same old thing. We always have a choice of what to do. If our job doesn’t give us the time to become the artists we truly desire, and we can’t find another job. We can become an artist in our free time and then use these new skills to shift the job and become the artists we deserve.