Confusion can come from not understanding a problem. It can also come from having too many choices. Too many choices & not understanding are linked. Our 3rd Leadership Question is about targets and priorities. All leaders set Targets – good leaders ask “What’s important?” Target setting is easy – it…
55. Q2: What don’t we Know?
Our 1st Leadership Question was Which problem needs Solving?. We have started our journey on the Learning Curve, because we’ve focused. Whatever that problem is, we will automatically start taking action. We can’t help ourselves as humans – we need to Do something. The challenge with our action orientation is…
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…
53. Meeting with Friends.
There’s something very comforting about walking a familiar path, or the company of old friends. Did you ever consider why? It’s because our brains aren’t stressed. We’re not learning new basic information. We know so much already and we can focus just on what’s important. This is important for leaders…
52. Meet with Triumph and Disaster…
Ambition drives achievement, but it can also drive avoidance of reality. Likewise failure can be heartbreaking, and can drive avoidance of the same reality. A leader’s job is to ensure reality features in decision making – not just ambition and fear. A good predictor of a team’s future success is…
51. Meeting with Confusion.
If you finish meetings confused or distressed, you’re likely experiencing symptoms of a deeper problem within that team. That confusion might be caused by you, but more likely it’s a leadership problem. There are 2 types of confusion – Passive and Active. Passive confusion is simply not knowing what the…
50. Meeting with Danger.
How many people do you know who are true daredevils? One of those people who deliberately take real risks? Chances are that you don’t know many, or even any adults who happily take real risks. Risk takers are rare. Despite all the hype about heroic entrepreneurs, conscious risk taking is…
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.…
48. Why Meet?
The Leadership Industry has a lot of complicated and confusing models about “Meetings” – categories, types and why they’re held. Most of these are about as useful as the instruction manual for your microwave oven. There’s only one ultimate purpose for Meetings in organizations. The ultimate and only true purpose…
47. Meeting your Culture…
Meetings get bad press – for good reasons. They’re useless or unproductive or boring… They’re a necessary evil… They waste my valuable time. Meetings are a useful window into the actual culture of a team and a great way to see real leadership style in action. They’re also incredibly important…