Articles – Page 8 – Luke McMeeken-Ruscoe

Learn Like An Emperor

Curiosity isn’t just for kids to marvel and wonder at the world they are experiencing for the first time.

It is a super power for all of us to continuously learn and grow. The world keeps changing and so should we.

Everything in moderation.

Too little information slows learning and improvement.

Too much information overwhelms and shuts down learning and processing.

Balance is key to creating progress and limiting confusion.

Doing more things is seen as important but it bulks you up and slows you down.

Doing less things better slims you down and speeds you up.

More is less, less is more.

Leadership is not about being the best.

It is about painting a picture of what the future could be and supporting others to be the best versions of themselves.

True leadership is getting out of the way and letting your team be awesome.

Having a metric is designed to be a target, more good, less bad.

If only this were true. A metric is just a guide for direction.

Unpacking the nuances around the metrics is going to be the only way to reveal if your team is performing or not.

We live in a moment where exerting power on others is seen as noble. It is why certain politicians, CEOs, and film execs stay in power.

The irony is that it is easy to be mean, but it takes real strength and leadership to be kind.

Always choose kindness.

From average to good requires fundamental, structural improvements. It is a huge jump.

From good to great requires tiny improvements and consistently not making mistakes.

It is less of what you do do, and more of what you don’t.

Strategies are started with incomplete information. This doesn’t mean they are wrong, just that they are full of assumptions.

The key thing is to learn when you are right, or more importantly wrong with your assumptions to keep updating the direction you are travelling.

You can’t take off on a broken runway.

If you want your team to fly, you need to clear their path.

Make all the decisions you need to make so that their path is as clear as possible.

Mistakes will happen. As a leader you can either cast blame or assign accountability.

Blame feels good because someone should suffer for the mistake but it hurts the team.

Accountability helps everyone learn to improve rather than to fear about mistakes.