Finding Your Project's Natural Rhythm
Every project has its own pulse and tempo. Project lifecycles are not just methodologies, but distinctive rhythms that can either amplify or undermine your team's natural flow.
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4 things that I have learned from changing my jobs 4 times throughout the 4 years after graduations:
- Change it if you hate it, but don’t underestimate the cost of change.
- “Change” is both the purpose for and result of growth from within, not others.
- Test and experiement your change, and be honest with yourself on if you live better because of the change
- You change to adapt, not to run away.
A “VUCA” World
We live in a VUCA world - Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous. If changes are instead natural and destined to come, how come we tell ourselves seeking for alternatives is a act of indeterminacy? The world is accerlerating, and you can’t time when the next disruption comes. Yet some principles will outlive them, and they have been rephrased and retold over decades and centuries, being left there for you to grasp.
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Being a “Jumpy” workforce
Asian societies have an almost natural intolerance towards changes. Changing your job or career in Hong Kong or other regions of similar work culture often means being “jumpy”, not settled, and to a certain point, not responsible. Growing up in asian families, most of us are risk-aversed, and the more we grow up and stay put, the thicker our walls of comfort are.
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Before any change…
Therefore, take some time to justify your changes not to the others, but to yourselves by asking:
- What exactly are changes do i seek? Can I descibe it clearly or it is just a feeling?
- How to implement those changes to my life hollistically?
- Why do I feel the need of this change? What are my inherent painpoints right now?
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