Improvement – Page 7 – Luke McMeeken-Ruscoe

Thinking Better

Short cuts to get rid of boring work so you can spend more time thinking about interesting things, spending time with people you love.

Thinking Better – The Art of the Shortcut – By Marcus Du Sautoy

Du Sautoy delves into the past to show how some of the great minds of mathematics solved problems and how their thought process can help you solve yours.

Imperfect

We want to let go of the idea of perfection. Nothing is going to be perfect. Everything is always in a state of flux.

You get out of life what you put in it, the process is important.

Rest Those Weary Bones

Stress is part of the improvement process. You need to work out to get stronger, you need to study to learn.

The problem is not enough rest to allow the stress to make you better.

Exhaustion is not too much stress, but too little rest.

Detecting Ideas Better

Thinking deeply on a problem that creates little value is a waste of time.

Thinking narrow on a problem that needs room to run is pointless.

Thinking wide and thinking deep are great strategies, but only when deployed correctly.

Solving for X

Solving the issue at hand feels like you are being productive but it might be putting a plaster on a wound.

Should you be solving the cause of the problem rather than the symptom?

What about those others

Context and nuance matter.

If someone success did x, it doesn’t mean it was correct, is there people that did x and failed.

If someone does y and fails, it doesn’t mean that y isn’t right.

There is more to success and failure than one variable.

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Leading North

Leadership is simple, but it is not easy.

Telling your team what is important is simple, deciding what is important isn’t easy.

Believing in your team is simple, proving that by letting them be great and getting our of their way isn’t easy.

Innovative Leap?

Innovation can happen in small increments, or huge leaps.

Sometimes multiple people have the same idea at the same time. Sometimes you are years ahead of what is possible.

How you tell the story of what the new world looks like matters.