Looking at success, you can miss what is important.
Ignoring failure, you can miss what is successful.
Going backwards from an outcome can create an cause and effect conclusion that misses key information to achieve that outcome.
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Make Your Processes Better With Wine, But Not Like That
Every process will have problems, but only if they are unforeseen.
If you know something unwanted might happen you can plan around it or plan for it.
A problem is only a problem if you don’t see it coming. Then you are the problem.
Where Is Your Edge?
You don’t figure out your edge in the competition once and then you always have it.
Like a chefs knife, you have to constant work on your knife to keep the edge.
Use Adversity to Improve
People are going to be better than you at things. You can be intimidated or inspired.
Run from the discomfort or lean into the challenge.
The choice is yours.
Success Leaves Clues
Looking at others success can provide clues on how to replicate their success.
Try to avoid specifics because their specifics are going to be different.
Look for the general trends you can take and then apply your specific skills.
Explode With Simplicity
Making things as simple as possible takes a lot of though and effort.
Making things complex and confusing takes little thought and effort.
Which one do you think you can do?
Using Failure to Create Success
Looking at our successes, we can read into things that aren’t there but are hidden by our success.
Looking at our failures can help us consider what we thought was right but clearly wasn’t.
How John Wick Nearly Didn’t Make It
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.
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.
Luke McMeeken-Ruscoe 