Learning isn’t difficult. Your brain is programmed to learn. If you don’t stop it. Some say learning a new job is difficult, that’s not true. Learning a new job is easy because you want to learn. You think about it a lot so you learn it. At least until you…
109. Why Why?
The most visionary and inspirational people I know have one thing in common. It’s not high position or material wealth… They all know their Mission. The world can be divided between survivors and dreamers. Survivors aren’t materially poor, they’re trapped in today and tomorrow. Dreamers don’t have their head in…
107. Do you choose Learning?
Learning is easy. It can be slow. It’s also easy to stop if you choose to. In a complex world you win when you control outcomes rather than they control you As a smart leader you control outcomes by giving your team control, not by controlling the team. You do…
106. Where are your boundaries?
Learning is easy. Once you set your mind on something. It’s impossible if you don’t. We talked last week about being open to new or different ideas. Now you’re at work, learning your job. Soon you discover that some things aren’t open to you. Maybe many things. What do you…
105. What do you Believe?
Belief is an integral part of being human, to accept some ideas as true. What we believe makes us what we are. There are upsides and downsides to belief however. The downsides have nothing to do with the spiritual or religious or political or social beliefs that you have. They…
99. Are you pretending?
“ I trust you to do your job..” was a catchphrase in a business I was once in, intended to turn empowerment from a noun to a verb. Of course not every leader in that business trusted their own teams enough to actually empower them, but everyone in their teams…
85. What’s your real Mission?
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…