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Easy or not

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“That’s something we can very easily do.”

Perhaps it’s true, but the point is not whether something is easy or not. The point is what’s happening that’s keeping people from doing it.

Is it a lack of clarity on what matters?

Is it that you are overreaching and micromanaging?

Is it a lack of competence or confidence?

Is it poor resources?

Is it overwhelming expectations?

People are not inherently lazy or irresponsible, so if something easy is not getting done, ask yourself what you can correct in your own doing, before starting to look outside and push the target farther away.

Unfulfillment

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There’s a time for praise and celebration, and there’s a time for requests, feedback, concern, criticism.

When the two get mixed, the enthusiasm quickly dies down and it just leaves a sense of unfulfillment and near-accomplishment.

Echo chamber

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Nobody wants to hear what you have to say.

Everybody wants to share what they have to say.

It might be a bit of an exaggeration, but if you want to be a leader, that’s a distinction you need to have very clear. One that you need to be able to navigate.

If you don’t, you’ll find yourself in a very limiting echo chamber.

Boxes

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Most companies want employees to not work in silos. And then, they organise their work in little, hierarchical boxes.

They split the workforce in departments. They assign managers and middle-managers to each of them. They give them goals and agendas and salaries and development plans that are unique. And they get mad because Product doesn’t talk to Sales, because what Marketing promotes is not the story that Customer Success tells, because the Leadership Team meetings are just a battle for budget and recognition, and because their Customers are sick of waiting for the promised improvement.

So, the opportunity for you is to become the person who looks at problems horizontally. To learn about others priorities and spot lateral developments. To become the glue that delivers and the light that shines on colleagues.

If you’ll just stick to your box, you’ll be part of the problem, not the indispensable solution.

Screech

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Complaining is a signal that something is bothering us, that something is not working, that something is not as it should be.

And complaining about that one thing should be an activity that is limited in time.

When it’s protracted, it becomes inertia at best, negligence and misconduct in the worst cases.

Taken to the extreme, complaining will become part of a community’s culture. So much so that the object does not matter anymore, and one complains just as a way to fit in and distract.

That’s the danger with many teams.