Let’s have a quick coffee meeting to discuss things over? It was the third time this project manager pinged me in three days to discuss things that didn’t need any ‘discussing’.
Such an interesting topic. Thank you for shining the light on this. I’m working out my work schedule then I get home from my holiday, so this is very timely. How do you do your’s?
Perfect! Let me know how it goes. I run a design agency with my husband and since it's a lean setup, we need to do everything from marketing to the core work ourselves. We both love 'maker work' but suck at other things 🤪 I'm disciplining myself to make a priority list everyday including the things I hate but 'have to' get out of the way. I check those first and then give myself the reward of deep work.
Love your insights here. I've always tried to keep meetings, when they're within my autonomy, to a 15-minute length. I think 80% of one-on-one meetings can be completed in that time. People often forget that asking X amount of people to sit for an hour together is actually using up X amount of hours of productive time, not just one hour.
Thank you Jamie. I’m sure everyone you work with would be appreciative of that. Looks like you have nailed the manager mode. Do you also enjoy working in the maker mode?
I do, I'm actually more of a maker than a manager tbh. But sometimes you have to manage folks! Another thing I encourage is that there are no bad or "dumb" questions. All questions are valid. I think people should always feel comfortable asking colleagues things they maybe don't know about yet or haven't learnt.
Good book about this by one of the original Twitter Founders; Biz Stone. He covers a lot of ground but I'll never forget him writing "asking questions is free". So true, worst case you'll be in the same place you are now, best case it could be life-changing or at the very least you'll learn something!
Such an interesting topic. Thank you for shining the light on this. I’m working out my work schedule then I get home from my holiday, so this is very timely. How do you do your’s?
Perfect! Let me know how it goes. I run a design agency with my husband and since it's a lean setup, we need to do everything from marketing to the core work ourselves. We both love 'maker work' but suck at other things 🤪 I'm disciplining myself to make a priority list everyday including the things I hate but 'have to' get out of the way. I check those first and then give myself the reward of deep work.
Love your insights here. I've always tried to keep meetings, when they're within my autonomy, to a 15-minute length. I think 80% of one-on-one meetings can be completed in that time. People often forget that asking X amount of people to sit for an hour together is actually using up X amount of hours of productive time, not just one hour.
Thank you Jamie. I’m sure everyone you work with would be appreciative of that. Looks like you have nailed the manager mode. Do you also enjoy working in the maker mode?
I do, I'm actually more of a maker than a manager tbh. But sometimes you have to manage folks! Another thing I encourage is that there are no bad or "dumb" questions. All questions are valid. I think people should always feel comfortable asking colleagues things they maybe don't know about yet or haven't learnt.
Couldn’t agree more. Asking questions is a super power!
Good book about this by one of the original Twitter Founders; Biz Stone. He covers a lot of ground but I'll never forget him writing "asking questions is free". So true, worst case you'll be in the same place you are now, best case it could be life-changing or at the very least you'll learn something!
Thanks for the great recommendation! I’ll check it out.
I also see myself as more of a maker but you can’t escape manager mode!