Clarity
Clarity is power. As a leader, clarity for oneself is vital. What is also important is to help people gain clarity in what they do – helping them traverse through fog, uncertainties, junctions… so that they get to their destinations.
Performance
Preparation
Measure twice, cut once – Craftsman’s aphorism. Preparation, homework… It counts. Especially in the current age where getting a chance second time is highly unlikely.
Focus
When ‘urgent’ issues are in combat with ‘important’ issues (in our daily timeline), which one prevails to occupy our attention, mind-space and energy? No brainer. On a daily basis, how much time and attention am I giving for things that move the needle? What could I do to focus (more) on what is important?
Excellence
Excellence – probably has less to do with talent (alone), more to do with passion. One question that helps in the pursuit – ‘Is this the best that we could do at this point in time?’
One thing
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times – Bruce Lee. What is that one thing am doing each day that would take me closer to my goal?
Execution
It is better to have a Grade B strategy and Grade A execution than the other way around – Michael Porter. Essence is excellence in execution. In other words, an idea or strategy is only as good as its execution. The balance is crucial. Do I have / maintain an effective balance? Am I focussed
Focus
‘People think focus means saying yes to the thing you have got to focus on. But that is not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are’ – Steve Jobs. Staying focussed – on course, on purpose, in the face of distractions of all sorts…
Designs
Arthur Miller’s saying is still true: ‘All organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they get.’ How do we design / change the design (keeping outcomes in mind) pro-actively? How do we get the team(s) to subscribe, and act on it? In-time? How do we get the whole stuff in to our corporate DNA?
Courage
“We don’t get stuck because we lack knowledge, we get stuck because acting on what we know is hard and takes courage. But that is what leadership calls us to do: to act courageously – To say and do the things that will move us and our organizations forward”- Peter Bregman. Can’t agree more…
Scheduling ‘to do’
We have heard ‘things that get scheduled are the things that get done’. What to schedule? How to schedule? Probably one way would be to list the priorities first, and then schedule them – rather than choosing to do things based on ‘availability of time’.
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