Luke McMeeken-Ruscoe

Are you updating your decisions?

When seeking feedback, don’t worry if people agree with your outcomes. Have them question your way of thinking.

An outcome could be luck masquerading as skill. Understanding a thought process can help increase your skill.

Every choice creates a cost. Eat poorly, you gain weight, to lose weight you have to pay the cost.

When you make a bad business/leadership decision, you have to pay the cost to make it right.

The question is will you?

Success can mean we are doing things right. It doesn’t mean we are doing everything correctly.

Don’t take success as the end point of learning.

Take it as an opportunity to figure what you think is right, versus what is correct.

Making a decision quickly doesn’t donate skill.

Taking the time you have to think about a nuanced and considered answer shows wisdom.

A knee jerk reaction doesn’t.

Finding positive role models are great.

It is also helpful to find negative role models. Figuring out what not to do is just as helpful as figuring out what to do.

The positive role model and the negative role model might be the same person.

Success lies in effective processes and positive outcomes.

Focusing on outcomes can mistake luck for skill.

Focusing on process can improve efficiency but requires the process developers to be different from the process evaluators.

Waste can be accidental and unintentional.

Efficiency comes not from just doing things better, but doing better things.

A HiPPO is the Highest Paid Person’s Opinion.

If you are the HiPPO be careful with your actions. You can create courage or chaos within your team.

If you aren’t the HiPPO, be careful to make them happy, and sometimes that is not about being good at your job but stroking their ego.

There is a difference between who makes the decision and who makes the decision on who makes the decision.

The immature leader wants to be both.

The mature leader knows they can only be one.

Choosing when you start something can take luck.

Choosing when you stop something takes wisdom.

Before starting something, plan in what markers will make you rethink your choice.