The trouble maker in your team isn’t in opposition with you, they don’t believe in your core assumptions.
Assumptions aren’t facts and shouldn’t be a threat to your identity.
What if the trouble maker is right?
Tag Archives: Strategy
The Seven Errors You Might Be Making
A mistake isn’t a problem.
Many mistakes aren’t problems.
It is refusing to correct mistakes that creates the problem.
Updated Equations
Ability + incorrect problem = worthless
No ability + unsolvable problem = pointless
Ability + solvable problem = ego boost
Ability + challenging problem = Progress
Write It Down
Culture is ongoing, implicit, and pervasive.
If you don’t guide it where you want it to go it will go where it wants.
Express your values, live up to those values. Ask your team what they think the values are.
Interchangable parts
Brain power should be used on what to do, not how to do things.
If every part of your business has different ways to do things then staff spend less time of solving problems and more time thinking about which process to follow.
Lead by letting go
Leadership is explaining to your team what is important, and what values your team works by.
The goal is to have them be able to work independently. If they can’t work with you, then you are not leading, you are the problem.
Don’t Skip The Process
Understand the outcome is fine, it shows where we want to go.
The process we follow is how we get there.
If you skip steps and try to just get to the outcome you often miss out of the things that will make the outcome worthwhile.
Don’t Play Their Game
Simplicity is difficult. It is painful to cut things out, to remove things that might be helpful.
Complexity appears intelligent but it is a crutch to not have to be specific about what you are doing.
Planning for the futre
Strategy is about what you think will happen in the future. Planning is about using resources in the present. If you spend all your time planning, you won’t have any future.
Start Digging
Inspiration doesn’t happen with meticulously designed perfect plans.
It happens when you have a rough to good idea of where you are trying to go and you have to improvise some of the way.
Luke McMeeken-Ruscoe 