Comments on: Choose Your Battles http://blog.brodzinski.com/2010/06/choose-your-battles.html Dealing with software projects in real life Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:07:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: jfbauer http://blog.brodzinski.com/2010/06/choose-your-battles.html#comment-15587 jfbauer Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:29:16 +0000 http://blog.brodzinski.com/?p=1858#comment-15587 Pawel, good points. If you are over prepared and only enter battles that you know you can win, you risk building the perception that no one will want to work with you/your team. Since people don't listen, don't read and don't learn, they typically don't put in 110% into their job as you might. Thus, human nature kicks in and they build hatred towards your "always right" persona. Plus, you win a few battles and you might think you are on a roll. Over time, you might get a little over confident and get tripped up in a battle. In a similar thought pattern, I wrote an article a bit ago regarding approaching battles essentially with the position of being a maximum of 80% accurate: http://bit.ly/a1XAn Pawel, good points. If you are over prepared and only enter battles that you know you can win, you risk building the perception that no one will want to work with you/your team. Since people don’t listen, don’t read and don’t learn, they typically don’t put in 110% into their job as you might. Thus, human nature kicks in and they build hatred towards your “always right” persona. Plus, you win a few battles and you might think you are on a roll. Over time, you might get a little over confident and get tripped up in a battle.

In a similar thought pattern, I wrote an article a bit ago regarding approaching battles essentially with the position of being a maximum of 80% accurate: http://bit.ly/a1XAn

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