I’m betting there is a pot of coffee in your break room right now.
Maybe it is fresh. Maybe it has been sitting on the burner since before the morning standup and some well-intentioned co-worker keeps meaning to make a new pot but the day keeps happening. Either way, it’s there. It’s always there. Because that is what coffee does – it’s reliable. It fuels the team; it absorbs whatever the morning throws at it – but it also gets burned sometimes and overflows other times. Frequently, it just ends up empty.
Your core team is that coffee. Not because they grind – although I’m sure they do – but because they’re there. They’re showing up day after day.
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