Care is something under your full control that can give you an immense edge.
It works on three levels, which are deeply intertwined.
Care is not easy and it cannot be faked.
And when you care, you become unstoppable.
Reporting on tens of different metrics give one of two impressions.
Impression #1 – You are shooting in the dark. Since you can’t agree on what success means, you are just tracking and reporting everything in the hope that some of the numbers will look good on your deck to the board.
Impression #2 – You are going to cheat. Many metrics mean infinite interpretations, and something tells me that the one you are going to deliver today is not a story of failure.
Next time you are preparing a report, make an effort to avoid both.
There is no fight you can win without losing at least a little of the relationship underlying it.
And there is no relationship for which you won’t regret having lost even a little piece.
Pick your fights very carefully.
The best time to raise a concern about something is not the moment you realize there is a concern.
At that time, the concern is instinctual, raw, primitive.
Stay with it for a while. Elaborate it, write it down, think about it. And after some time has passed, if the concern is still there with you, go ahead and express it in the best possible form.
It’s never easy. It’s just worth it.
If you are busy trying to understand whether your team should work remotely, in the office, or in an hybrid format, you are most likely busy with wrong kind of questions.
It might be yet another issue that distracts from focusing on the need to reassess what management means and what people seeks in organisations and their work.
Let’s stay on point.
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