Stay Hungry ...

When we've been at the grindstone, toiling late, waking up early and totally impassioned about the work we are doing we can get in that zone.That zone can see us at times deliver best work - and face our harshest critics.

But wait ... is it us or them? 

Leaders, maybe the critics aren't that harsh after all. Early on when we're trying to get something off the ground we spend countless hours, late nights, early mornings and lots of excited energy focused on our vision. Forcing the vision into reality is never easy and takes repetition, and often leads to mastery of tactics. We can get very good at what we do. If it's a service that we offer, our clientele may want to only be served by us - they say we're special and different and it feeds our egos. If it's a product, the way we deploy, troubleshoot, fix, or use the product is without parallel.  Our teams revel in our ability to bring these things to life. We become Masters of deployment and tactics. Critics, on the other hand, are very difficult to handle with early repetitions of service and product delivery.Early critics can hurt the most because they feed our doubts about our product and services. Look at it another way, critics show that what you're doing is working. You need fans, but not as many as you think.The appearance of critics simply validate that you are creating impact. As Matt Stewart shared, harvest what's useful and move on. Make it a great day,Govindh@WiseNapkin