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?
Performance
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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Application
What one knows and how much of that one puts in to use impact the outcomes. How one puts in to use, how and how much one ‘applies’ oneself (in the process) impact the outcomes more… ‘Application’ goes a long way impacting the outcomes – applying one-self, applying with the cause / purpose in mind,
safe and secure
Leadership is not just about inspiring high performance – It is also about the ability to make people feel safe and secure. Adversity is something usual (to business). Remaining composed while facing them puts those one leads also at ease – creates a safe and secure workplace culture, where no one need to panic when
Competencies
Competencies that are most critical for the current role (the role that one is in right now) are important – Those may be significantly different from the ones that we had demonstrated in our earlier roles. Also important is to ask oneself which are the competencies that are going to be most critical to move
Brain storming
To be effective, needs to be non-judgmental. Every idea should be welcome, written down… Judgment is the fastest way to shut down the flow of ideas, creativity.. Therefore the caveat. Kill one idea early on with judgment, many more will be left unsaid. Are we (non-judgmental in our brainstorming sessions)? Can we be?