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.
Tag Archives: Strategy
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 have time
Peter Drucker wrote more in his last quarter of his life than this first 3 quarters.
You just need to be curious and start, you never know, you might change the world.
Don’t Fight The Rip
Sometimes your first instinct is not a good one.
Fighting an ocean rip is a unachievable task. Riding the rip to a better spot to get out and use the waves to bring you back to sure is a counterintuitive but safer option.
Think About Less
Warren Buffet doesn’t look at every share, he thinks deeply about a select few.
Thinking about everything doesn’t show your intellect. Refining and thinking more deeply about less things creates better outcomes.
Don’t fix it in post
Creativity doesn’t happen with an abundance of resources, it is born from the presence of constraints.
Being put in a box doesn’t limit your creativity, it reveals it.
Ask How?
It is really hard to change someone’s mind about anything. But, if you ask them to explain something to you, it might make them change their own mind.
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.
Luke McMeeken-Ruscoe 