Focus on Speed + Good Enough
This way you’ll get quickly to the goal. HOWEVER… Getting quick and good enough to the wrong goal is worse than slow towards the right thing. Like the player here ???? The player here did score, with efficiency, mastery and intent. Just at the wrong thing. It’s not about speed, good enough delivery or “avoiding perfect”. It’s about seeing where to go and choosing the right direction. That beats efficiency for the sake of efficiency. Because you’ve seen times over and over wrong things executed…
Cringe
What are words / things in your industry that make you cringe? Number 1 for me this month: Storytelling. Let me know yours?
Working on the weekends
If you want, you can. But here’s the thing, you need to understand this is your choice. If you can’t say no to work, or you need to be working all the time, because any reason, ponder this question: Is this a pattern? When it becomes a pattern, you get “obsessed” with work, it’s not a choice anymore. And you’re in your business because you wanted to make the right choices for you. Disconnect. To-ta-lly. from work. Here are 2 benefits you’ll find: You won’t burn out. You’ll leave your brain to…
Weekends
As an entrepreneur, business owner, solo consultant… do you work on the weekends?
Stages of risk acceptance
In short: when you have nothing, you try, fail and do whatever it takes to get things moving. That takes you to a place where things in the environment are the status quo and you break it. However, when you get to the first results, you want predictability. So you try and fail less and embrace the status quo. You get afraid of things failing now. You have more at stake. And that can hold you back. What Blair Enns calls the The Innoficiency Problem.
Procrastination is productive.
Friend-of-the-list and fellow daily writer, Shweta send this message about “Not all days can be equally productive, and that’s OK.” Some thoughts about this are that also, doing nothing is doing. Because stop time is productive. That’s why pauses are needed. We’re not machines —and even them, they need repairs, stop times, preventive maintenance and so on. Otherwise you’d burnout. Sometimes being “unproductive” is highly productive. Procrastination is productive. And here’s Rory Sutherland to…
On working on your positioning
Two things: 1. Start with the basics. Positioning → Discipline for Market.Where market = a group of people trying to get something done. You figure that out, you’re getting way closer than most of your competitors and alternatives.2. Define, state and articulate your business POV in the market —versus how the market (competitors, rivals, alternatives) sees the ways to solve the problem. If you can’t tell your POV from the rest, your position is general and undifferentiated. If that’s the…
Not doing… to think = Wasted time
Have you ever felt like when you’re working and need to make a stop to decide over which way to go, this “deciding” time is wasted time? You’re not alone. Talking with friend-of-the-list and data science expert, Genevieve Hayes, we got to talk about this kind of work. David Marquet defines it as red/blue work. “Work has 2 activities: doing and deciding.” The dynamic between these 2 is what can bring you to stay ahead. It’s not one or the other, but when it’s the right time for one, and when…
The problem with servant leadership
… is pretty much the same as with leader-follower leadership. Today’s episode of The Business of Authority with Rochelle Moulton and Jonathan Stark was about “The books that changed us” (well, them). And it’s quite insightful on how things you read can help you in your own journey. In the mid of it, there’s a mention to The Servant Leader, by Robert Greenleaf. However, that term —servant— makes me cringe. While the book makes a point on key things like searching, listening and being there…
Making sure your team stays productive
“Your team is working remotely. How can you ensure they stay productive?” A question posed by AI on linkedin. Tons of replies. All looking at the tree: productivity. Whether or not your team or organization or collabs are remote or on-site, trying to “ensure they stay productive” is nonsense. Ensure they stay productive.That premise itself assumes they are not.It assumes they need to be checked on —like irresponsible, little kids.It assumes they need to take orders and be under control (of…
