Finding positive role models are great.
It is also helpful to find negative role models. Figuring out what not to do is just as helpful as figuring out what to do.
The positive role model and the negative role model might be the same person.
Tag Archives: Strategy
How To Get Better Results By Ignoring The Outcome
Success lies in effective processes and positive outcomes.
Focusing on outcomes can mistake luck for skill.
Focusing on process can improve efficiency but requires the process developers to be different from the process evaluators.
The Deadweight of Christmas
Waste can be accidental and unintentional.
Efficiency comes not from just doing things better, but doing better things.
Using (Cell) Death To Your Advantage
Choosing when you start something can take luck.
Choosing when you stop something takes wisdom.
Before starting something, plan in what markers will make you rethink your choice.
Use your limits correctly
Limits are neither good nor bad.
Setting a target can mean you fail to achieve a better result because your target is too low.
Limiting your resources can unleash creativity.
Make sure you are putting the right limits on yourself.
The Wisdom of the Crowds
Experts have their place.
Crowd feedback has their place.
Your job is to know when to use either to get the best result.
How to learn from Failure
Setting up what success means at the start of the project is important.
Learning that your assumptions at the start were wrong is smart.
Changing what success means when you learn through the project is wise.
Idea fight
Ideas should stand on their own two feet.
When you let who is saying the idea count more than the idea, you have popularity contests not idea fights.
Let them fight.
The Symptom Trap
People deal with the symptom, it feel like they have done something.
If you don’t deal with the cause, the symptom keeps happening so you haven’t done anything, just wasted your time.
Timing sucks
A great idea is worthless if you can’t get the team to do it.
Instead of trying to do the whole thing, can you implement smaller pieces of it to show your skill and credibility to gain traction to implement more?
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