You don’t make your culture by what you do, but by what you allow.
People will rise to the level of the bar you set, if you set it low they might act that way.
Set a high bar and watch them rise to it.
Tag Archives: Leadership
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.
Fighting On Death Ground
Understanding what “ground” you are on can help you define what strategy to engage with your competition and also how they might be trying to engage with you.
The Map Is Wrong
Don’t listen to what people did, listen to how they think.
Your situation is not the same as their situation so what they do might not work.
You can apply how they think to your situation to consider new answers for what you should do.
You might be the c*nt
It can feel like other people act like c*nts when they don’t agree with you.
Trying to understand someone else’s point of view can help you understand your position better.
Blindly thinking you are right because you said it, and not looking critically at yourself might mean that you are the cunt.
Joe Rogan, Aristotle, and nuance.
Being confronted by views that challenge your belief you want to be open the merits of the other sides arguments.
Remember that nuance is hard, context matters when trying to understand something you don’t agree with.
Enter into the conversation trying to learn, not trying to win.
Shoot More Shots
The challenge of improvement isn’t accomplished in one moment. It is accomplished by thousands of small moment’s, some of them, failures.
Don’t overcorrect
Over-correcting from a mistake doesn’t put you back on your path, it just takes you to the other side of the path.
Be Professional
To ‘be professional’ usually means taking abuse from someone above you that can’t regulate their emotions.
Luke McMeeken-Ruscoe 