Of course there are more than three ways to build a team, but here are the three I see nearly every single day.
The question you must answer is which do you want to be on and which do you want to help build.
You have a problem like too many sales and not enough time or energy to ship your beautiful, handcrafted mugs. The solution? Hire someone to fill the role of "shipment specialist." Easy enough.
(Me. 5th birthday. Credit: Mom)
Last night M and I, rather unintentionally, stayed awake reading and working on various things until we glanced up at the clock to see that it was 12:01 AM. Yesterday had become today. January 29th. And just like that, I was 33.
M promptly asked, "So...how do you feel?"
It's the obligatory question we all ask when someone passes the imaginary line into another year of life. Although it's a little silly to…
While I tend to stray as far from binaries as possible, I think this one is a reality.
The way I see it, we have two options:
or,
"Uh-oh!"
I hear this maybe 5,000 times a day.
Ruby drops her sippy cup. "Uh oh!"
She runs too fast and takes a header into the hallway. "Uh oh!"
She throws a slice of turkey against the wall. "Uh oh!"
But because I've become so accustomed to the phrase, I don't hear it as negative anymore.
She says "uh oh!" and I hear, "I'm experimenting!"
She says, "uh oh!," and I hear, "Ah ha! I'll do that differently next time!"
Don't get me wrong. Sometimes…
If you've known my wife and I for any length of time, it won't come as any surprise to know that our house is a lively one. We talk a lot, we laugh a lot, we play a lot of music. I wouldn't say it's a "quiet home."
And now we've got this 16 month old toddling about adding her two cents, which is a lot more like buckets and buckets of change clanging on the floor. The sound is glorious...and loud. Ruby's got about 20 solid words in her…