Execution is tough!

Started to wake up early... well, because schools resumes and my wife teaches @ 8am every single day of the week!

Anyway, went to Shan office, bought a new erm, got some tau-sa-pia, got a new radio for the smurf (our van) and back to work.

Over late lunch, I "munched" through the list of tasks and things that have been documented ever since we started 2 new web-page-post on our Twiki (our Unit Trust wiki). Essentially, these document meetings or discussions that require action, or execution.

Realised that while some of the tasks were executed, a number was not. It's really tough to get our priorities right. People have been bombarding us with the "important' and the "urgent". We know the drill; do the most important and most urgent (well, sometimes we ought to do the most important and least urgent! Cos we tend to make more errors when tackling the urgent stuffs). Anyway, it's all true but I truly believe that one can only learn through experience on how to differentiate between those 2. I keep struggling with this when it comes to (a) long term aims and (b) short terms! My long term goals is to build the team because without people, I can only achieve a multiple of my own capabilities but with others, I can achieve much more, on a geometric scale! The short terms? Well, these are the things that our boss wants! Want this, want that, why not this, why do that!

There is probably no solution but this calls for the right balance. And today, I think that it is about time to start focussing more on what management wants, leveraging on the team that has been built.

There's gonna be a new monthly meeting that will focus on our UT business, and involving the front, back and maybe even IT. That's great but well, challenging too. It's time to put to test what we have been building over the past 2 years. Can we get things done within the month in-between the meetings. Whatever else it might be, it surely is my own personal test to myself! I will know if the right things were done over the past 2 years. When the team shines, I will shine. If the team fails, so would I doubly.