Two ways to develop over the longer term.
To evolve and get better, to go from here to there in a period of months or years.
The first (the way I do it) is in bursts.
I attack things forward and then rest and then attack and then rest.
It's totally countercultural to me to build a system and a pathway that gradually moves towards better.
This is a disability and a hindrance, particularly in an organisation that continues to get larger.
I must understand this and use my talents or skills or character or whatever it's called, in the best way possible, in a project style to start things and then get out of the way, watch them develop and come back and start them.
The second is the grind.
This works for the architect's personality.
Set a pathway, pretty linear, here to there. Imagine a set of steps with very small landings.
Just keep walking up the steps every single day.
Both situations, both types of process, have their merits.
The bursts look more exciting, but the grind.
The grind is probably much more effective.
You don't win an Olympic gold medal by training in bursts every so often; you grind it out over years.
Grind is how real achievement works.
I'm not a grinder, and therefore my role is to help the grinders with bursts, and push things on that they can take and develop into something beautiful.
Quite an insight, but definitely part of the reason why one of our brilliant managing directors (and one of my great friends), Hayley Brown, would say to me, “get out of the fu***ng way”.
More and more, my job is to get out of the way of people who have a system that's making things better.
In a proper, regular, reasonable way.
Insightful to realise that.
Blog Post Number - 4676
Chicco is coming to Nottingham
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