Strategy – Page 10 – 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.

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.

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.

Tradition is defaulting to other people’s decisions.

If you don’t know their assumptions or constraints and you think it can be done better than there is a place for you to be clear with yours and try.

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.

Choose action over motion.

Invert your thinking to avoid disaster.

Instead of focusing on the big win, what is the big fail that will most hurt.

Now focus on stopping the big fail.

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.