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Scale the unscalable

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To scale everything is the must for every company.

Working every day with my teams, I came to the conclusion that we need to scale the unscalable. To scale is a great thing, for sure, but too many times we miss an important factor in doing so: creativity.

Best ideas I see are coming out from a person who doesn’t give a damn about scalability. Scalability kills the fact of being free with new ideas. Scalability kills the chance to risk and fail to do better next time. 

I’m not saying that scalability is wrong. But scaling the unscalable is something we forget to do.

Push yourself and the people working with you. And don’t be afraid of the unknown.

Every day like your last day

Since I decided to quit, days are lighter, and I have the right state of mind to push things, to do things with my teams I wouldn’t have done if I was still protected by my open-ended contract and my money at the end of the month.

I started noticing little things that turned out to be one of the most important things of my whole experience. People enjoying their creativity, people saying something true and of value to you, like you do between two human beings and not between a manager and an employee.

I feel better. I feel willing to risk something. I feel I can say “no” instead of nodding my head just because “that’s the way”.

I feel that maybe my feedback to some people can really matter. I feel more relaxed.

I’ll try this next time: I will act every day like it is my last day, at work.

I’m gonna focus more on projects, less on fuckin titles and money. Yeah, I get that. Money are important. No doubt on that. I just wanna be part of a badass project, or at least something I think it is.

Let’s see if I’m going to do better next time.

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Feedback : two-way communication

I’m managing a team of 10 (sometimes more, sometimes less) awesome people.

I am manager since march 2011, so I have a lot of things to learn yet.

I honestly think I’m good in certain stuff, and I totally suck for other, especially when my skills are mixed up with my impulses.

One thing I learnt for sure, and I wanna share it: no matter if you are a senior and you’re talking to an intern or you are a VP and you’re talking with a junior. No matter how the company structure currently is.

When it comes to feedback, the talk has to be a two-way communication. I want my people to give me feedbacks and advices on how I can be better. Better not only as a manager, but as a person. To me, we are one and only one team, where I have to take care of people, defend them, fail with them, be happy with them for success.

Don’t be afraid of giving feedback and advices to your manager. If it’s already doing a good job, he will listen and will learn from this. If it’s not allowing you to give feedback about him, or he/she does not care, it’s already a bad manager (and probably she knows it too).

When it comes to feedback, there are only two human beings. Fuck the titles.

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It’s good to change

Hey folks,

you notice anything different? That’s right. I changed the layout of my blog.

As I told you before, it’s time for big changes in my life. So, I decided to change a bit my blog too.

What do you think? I like it very much. Why? It’s SIMPLE. It’s neat. It’s just my thoughts. Less confusion, more content. And if you look at it on your mobile,  it’s awesome. The theme is responsive, and so am I.

Responsive to changes.  I was able to see boundaries, and that’s why I decided I need to push them even further. I’m trying to learn how to deal with the fear of NOT knowing what’s coming next. I’m seeing the fear, but instead of hiding myself from it, I decided to take it with me.

It’s good to push harder. It’s good to change.

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