Trying to make the complicated simple with strategy, leadership, performance, and story telling
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Luke McMeeken-Ruscoe