Ask for Help
One of my challenges as I mature and grow-up (in the work sense) is knowing when to ask for help.
It’s really easy to want to take everything on yourself, but you will inevitably end-up bottlenecking something, and that slows down the machine / momentum. You don’t want to be the cause of that, although for those of us that eat and breathe ambition, that’s tough.
The last couple of weeks for me have been really fast-paced. But I’m really learning so much - especially about a) executing key product management tasks and b) management. I got caught off-guard when I went through a deliverable review this week as part of things my team is working on.
It was the cause of it not being done as completely as it could have been, and that pissed me off.
But, I now know (yes, from hard lessons learned) that I can’t let that stuff eat me up as it has in the past. That paralyzes you (me especially), and as such, work quality degrades.
So this time, I’m getting off my ass and actually letting it inspire me to do better. Management can be tricky; while the concepts are easy, the devil lives in the details. I’m not, and never plan to be, a passive manager. I love being involved and communication vision, and things like that. I just need to get better at paying attention to detail.
Ahhh, thanks for listening. Heh. As I was writing, I just connected the dots there in my head; wow, funny how that works.
One thing I have noticed before, and noticed it again today, is that throughout my time in the workplace, I advance by jumping knowledge / experience levels. And, it’s always a clear step for me. Not “title” or “salary” or anything like that, but having gone through certain things a couple of times and picking up on details.
I just made a level jump this afternoon, and thanks for hearing me out.
