Everyone has at least 2 Missions. Their team’s mission and their own. The one they talk about and the one they don’t. It could be that your own is so deep that you don’t know it’s there. Or don’t want to admit it’s there. Less like an elephant in the…
80. Are you a survivor?
The world is a tough place. Whether we’re conscious of it or not, we all try hard to survive – physically and emotionally. If you’re not conscious of staying alive, you’re privileged. Or maybe naïve. Survival as a leader might not involve physical safety but does include success, or maintaining…
78. The choice to Lead.
It’s true that citizens don’t choose royalty but they do choose their elected politicians. The twist comes on the question of choice. A modern monarch doesn’t choose to lead us any more than we choose them, while elected leaders choose themselves! All leaders who are selected or elected make an…
74. Is your mind closed?
There’s a fine line between success and failure. Usually a series of small mistakes. If success comes from many small improvements, so too failure comes from many small mistakes. Reverse Kaizen is a thing… We all make mistakes. So preventing mistakes isn’t the answer to preventing a larger failure. Avoiding…
71. Do you read Leadership Books?
The best leadership books aren’t about leaders. Especially if they’re about the author. “What I did to be successful or rich” will likely feed their ego but not you. It’s not that there’s nothing to learn from Richard Branson or Bill Gates or Elon Musk. It’s just that the chances…
54. Q1: Which problem are we trying to Solve?
All great discoveries start with a question. So too does anything you will create, or be successful at. We want to do something and realize we can’t. We realize that there’s something we need to learn. The greatest achievements in business or in organizations start exactly the same way. Only…
49. Meeting with your Fears
It takes courage for most people to speak up in meetings. It doesn’t take much to convince them to not say anything. It’s easy to not be truthful, when telling the truth needs courage. To pretend that everything is ok when it’s not is the most common lie in meetings.…
42. Know your enemy..
It’s dangerous to think of yourself as just a hunter. No matter what you’re trying to achieve as a team, there are forces which will align against you. You need to assume you’re being hunted. A leader’s job isn’t just to set targets but to know where the team’s enemies…
41. Eat but don’t get eaten
When a bird is hunting an insect to eat, it must watch out at the same time that it’s not being hunted. That’s why bird’s brains, (& our brains too) are divided into 2 hemispheres. Humans (and all sentient beings) have survived and prospered because our brains can do 2…
36. What do you Know?
What you “know” sits inside your head, right? Your own beliefs and decisions are based on rational thoughts and logic. You “worked it out”.. unlike others with a different view who just made it up or aren’t so smart. Right? Wrong. At BalancedKaizen we believe that what we know is…