The roles and real work
In order to make it more clear and organized about what the true work that I should do, I would like make an statement by using the clause”if I’m in the role of… then I do…”, just like what Mintzberg discovered in his famous Manager’s Role Theory. (Mintzberg is one of my favorite management scholars, here is his other insightful theories).
When in work, I have mainly three roles. What I’m supposed to do with each role are:
**Role #1: Entrepreneur
- Idea: Search for and test new ideas and opportunities
- Design: Design products and business logic
- Communicate: Talk/connect with people to learn, hire, sustain customer relationship and make network
- Execute: Execute the project quickly by pushing others and by myself
- Channel: Build the channel that matches products to achieve selling at scale
Role #2: Indie hacker
It’s a sub-role of #1 Entrepreneur as being a solo developer. So it covers all the above work, and also includes the specific:
- Writing code
- Connecting to audiences
**Role #3: Writer
- Large amount of input of content
- Write dFown at a regular productive pace
- Edit and publish
Role #4: Researcher
- Reading papers
- Construction of theory
- Writing papers
**Some basic work
- Learn to know more about what you do(industry, product, benchmark, customer, yourself) by investigating, reading, talking, experiencing and retrospecting.
- Healthy lifestyle and habits to maintain peaceful mind and energetic status.