Trying to make the complicated simple with strategy, leadership, performance, and story telling
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.
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.
Seeking resistance unlocks your potential.
Weights = Stronger Muscles
Routine = Stronger Discipline
Opposing Ideas = Stronger thought process
Seek Resistance
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 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.
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.
Improvement requires specificity and restraint.
You can’t improve everything all at once.
You must pick something to improve rather everything, because everything will become nothing.
Experts have their place.
Crowd feedback has their place.
Your job is to know when to use either to get the best result.
Luke McMeeken-Ruscoe