Projects are built on structures and plans, much like training programs.
But don’t forget, we’re not robots. Leave room for spontaneity and serendipity.
The best innovations often arise from the unexpected.
Tag Archives: Leadership
Making Beautiful Music – How Making It Harder For Your Team Can Unlock Creativity
Constraints can be challenging, and that is the point.
studies have shown that students who are given a limited number of words to write a persuasive essay are more likely to generate more creative arguments.
To Be, Or Not To Be, Important
It is stroking your ego when you want your team to make you feel important.
A good leader makes their team feel important by highlighting their successes and contributions.
Authority Doesn’t Mean Expertise
Authority is a title; expertise is a skill.
Experts are always learning. They’re open to feedback, new ideas, and different perspectives.
Look for the person with the deepest understanding of the problem you’re trying to solve not the best office.
Play Through The Fear part 2
The burden of leadership is that they should outgrow you.
To lead isn’t to hold back to protect our fragile ego.
It is to strengthen their ego by showing them what they can become.
Them outgrowing us showed we did a good job.
Play Through The Fear
Running is running right?
But running towards something is completely different from running away from something.
Play and fear are motivators but they generate different processes.
What are you leading lead you?
Some Decisions on Making Good Decisions
Good decisions don’t just come out of thoughtful curiosity and savvy thinking.
It comes out of being in the right mindset to make a good decision.
There is a word hangry for a reason. The question to ask is should you be making a decision in your state?
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.
Getting The Order Right
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.
Learning To Improve Past Blame
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.
Luke McMeeken-Ruscoe 