Category: leadership

The muscle

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In the end, there are probably more things in life you are uncomfortable with than things you can easily accept and embrace.

This should be a reason to train your acceptance muscle, not the excuse to give in to control.

It’s a counterintuitive reaction and a pointless use of resources.

Units

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The problem with looking at a small unit to discuss the larger one is that the tone of the discussion is going to be very different depending on the small unit you look at.

Can a great day make the entire month invariably great? And can a poor one make it invariably poor?

Can a bad week make the entire quarter invariably bad? And can a good one make it invariably good?

Can a disappointing month make the entire year invariably disappointing? And can an exciting one make it invariably exciting?

You should your effort into controlling the broader unit instead – that’s made of narrative, of strategy, of purpose. And use that to try and explain the smaller units.

This is what will give you course and momentum.

Out of the crisis

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As a person in a position of power (a parent, a manager, a politician) your role in a moment of crisis is to inspire tranquillity.

That’s how others around you can continue to think clearly and help everyone out of the crisis.

Work relationships

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To build relationships in a work environment, particularly when you have leadership responsibilities, consider the following three things.

  1. Expectations, that is where what people expect of you meets what you expect to do.
  2. Communication, that needs consistency (i.e., frequency and repetition) and truthful content (i.e., say when something is wrong).
  3. Participation, that is a process that combines both a way for others to participate in your work and a way for you to set boundaries about what will get done.

Where are you struggling the most?

Thing done well

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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

But it would be more accurate to say: if you do a thing yourself, you’ll probably consider it well done.

Because you are the only judge. You set the standard, you choose what “well” means.

Of course, that’s not practical and it does not scale. And so, at some point, you will have to work with others, who will bring a different perspective on what “well” is.

If you are open, that’s a way to progress and figure out that what you thought of as “well” was actually just “good enough”.

If you are closed, on the other hand, you will probably go on doing “good enough”, until it becomes obsolete.