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December 16, 2019

#28 - It's Great Not To Know Everything

In which we talk about learning to trust and share responsibility when working in a team. Also, you can now set a up a reading goal on The StoryGraph!

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Trusting The Team
 
F: You know I can teach you everything I'm doing, right? It's not that hard.

Me: *Pauses, fighting the urge to say: yes, okay, teach it all to me. I want to know everything!* No...that doesn't really make sense...I have so much to do...

F: Yeah, that's what I figured too.
 
It was already hard enough taking a step back when Abbie and the Librarians started adding new books to the site every day. Resisting checking that the tags were accurate, that all of the blurbs were formatted correctly...

And now F is developing what is likely to be a core part of the product and only they know the details of how it has all works.

But that's okay. In fact, that's great.

The brain is getting so smart now. 😍

If you want to lead a team effectively and allow the people who work for or with you to thrive, then it's so important to trust them to get on with it.

People do their best work when they have the safe space to be creative, without fearing what will happen if they fail.

Being a micro-manager is sooo inefficient — not only do you frustrate your team members, you're not getting any valuable work done yourself!
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Last week

The most exciting product update?

You can now set a reading goal for the year:

Nice work, K! ;-)
 
 
How many books do you want to read in 2020? 🤓
 
This week
 
Soooo...out of the three key updates mentioned last week, only half of one has been completed. 😬

This week, the plan is to try and do as much as possible so next week isn't so stressful. 😅

Being able to track reading challenges like this one on The StoryGraph would add another dimension to the community and book discovery!
 
What I'm reading right now 

Book 4 in my Stephen King chronological read:
 

I hadn't heard great things about this one, but I reckon going in with super low expectations helped as I'm not hating it...

Who's read Rage?

Have a great week,

Nadia

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