There is more talent than opportunity.
No one flew a plane until someone flew a plane. If you think your team can only do what they have done, then you are saying no one can grow.
Give them a chance and let them show you their wings.
Author Archives: Luke McMeeken-Ruscoe
The Shortest Distance Isn’t Always a Straight Line
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, but it might not be the fastest way.
Sometimes letting other ideas fail first can allow your idea to shine more brightly.
You Are Wrong About Your Team, And That Is OK.
You will never control your team. They will do what they want.
Your task as a leader is to help guide them to make good choices when you are not there.
If you need to be there, you aren’t leading, you are doing their work.
A Healthy Diet For Constructive Thinking
Caring about outcomes can produce narrow ways to view the world.
Focusing on values and process can mean teams create different outcomes but embody a shared purpose.
A team is built on the big things rather than the small things that pull you apart.
The Complexity of Rethinking an Undesirable Outcome
Thinking takes a lot of energy. Heuristics help conserve energy and create solutions.
These solutions can be inaccurate so you need to be updating your mental models.
You know more today than you did yesterday, use it.
Forging a Fake
When being right is more important than being correct we promote lies and deceit.
When being correct is more important we promote learning and growth.
Taking the next step can get you miles
Outcomes are important to provide direction but action will get you there.
Where you first aimed for might not be where you end up but the process of moving forward will test and educated.
You don’ t need to end up where you thought you would but you do need to start.
Shooting for more Effective Decisions
Strength is not staying resolute in the face of new information. It is the courage to update your way of thinking.
Seeking out disagreement improves your thought process if you have the resolve to remove your desire to be right to allow new ideas in.
How Making Life Harder, Makes it Easier
Seeking resistance unlocks your potential.
Weights = Stronger Muscles
Routine = Stronger Discipline
Opposing Ideas = Stronger thought process
Seek Resistance
How To Create Smarter Processes
Having people evaluate their own work is like being able to grade your own paper, you are always going to give yourself great scores.
Process evaluation from another person adds rigour to the thinking if the evaluator wants the process to succeed.
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