👋 Hello everyone,
Bill Gates said, "Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”
Here are four resources you might have missed:
📚 Book Summary:
This week's book is "The Gig Economy" by Diane Mulcahy.
Whether you’re just entering the job market or have recently been laid off from a corporate position, this book will help you navigate an uncertain world. It will help you take stock of your current resources and identify where you need to excel. Additionally, the book provides insights into the shifting job market, offering strategic advice to enhance your personal and professional growth.
One of my favorite takeaways from the book is this:
We might not be able to achieve work/life balance on a particular day, but if we extend the time frame to a month or to a year, we're more likely to be successful. The same concept applies to achieving our vision of success. Time horizons can help us better allocate all of our resources—our time, energy, attention, and money—to achieve our goals. We have to be aware of our natural tendency to over-allocate our resources to short-term activities that offer immediate rewards instead of to our long-term activities, goals, and priorities. Our over-investment and over-allocation of time and energy to short-term goals put our longer-term goals at risk. To overcome this tendency, we need to keep our long-term goals "front and center" and consciously allocate our resources to them.
✅ Actionable advice:
Leaders often start a new role with a 30-60-90 day plan, providing clear structure, incremental goals, and reachable milestones. However, as Mike Tyson famously said, "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." Plans developed last quarter can quickly become distant memories as we focus on today's urgent but not necessarily important issues. Instead, follow Diane Mulcahy's advice: keep your long-term goals' front and center.' This ensures you focus strategically on what truly matters for personal and professional goals.
🧠 5 things I'm thinking about (January 10, 2025)
1.Visiting the Autodesk office in Toronto
2.Developing a Monthly Packet
3.Personal Kanban system
4.Partner Enablement
5.Preparing for QBR Q4
Reading "The Phoenix Project" by Gene Kim.
Have a great week!
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