You should be asking for help.

Legend has it that the Masonic lodge was the first labor union. The story is that the masons formed a fraternity to guard the engineering secrets used to construct the great pyramids and other marvels of that era. Times have changed.

Today’s software development culture embraces the hacker mentality. Why reinvent something that already works? We reuse code, tools, shortcuts, and tips about how to do things better in a way that just wasn’t common a generation ago.

But I still see many people struggling in their careers because they are bashful about asking for help. Maybe they don’t want to show ignorance. Maybe they don’t want to risk putting somebody in the spot of saying “I can’t help.” In any case, I’ve found it’s always better to treat one's personal development with the mantra of the agile product manager: 

The generosity of people when you ask them to share something specific aways amazes me. When I was young I had an opportunity to meet a woman named Suzanne Massie. She was an advisor to Reagan during the glasnost period of the cold war and was best known for giving the President the famous line “trust but verify.” To say she knew some powerful people would be an understatement. 

She said, “you know you can reach anybody in the world with just three phone calls.” I might have been 27 at the time but she looked me right in the eye and said: “I’m serious, you should try it sometime.”


It’s easier said than done because it is not aways easy to ask for a favor. Yet the most successful people in the world ask for help all the time. The principles of Agile Product Management encourage collaboration and learning from our mistakes. The great thing about working for emerging technology companies is that we’re often more eager to help each other. We just have to be brave enough to ask. 

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