Growth doesn’t happen because you say – “Time for Growth” – it happens when we make time for it when we work towards it when we push the activities holding us back away from it so we can create room to enable it to happen. You might have to get up earlier, you might have to stay up later, or you might have to push out that thing you like to make it happen. These…
When you describe the team you are leading, do you talk in the I or the We? If you talk in the I, then you are not leading a team, you are leading yourself. When you talk about We, you are talking about the team. Managers talk about the I, Leaders talk about the We.
When the team knows the play, they know what to do without even thinking about it. If one person changes the play without letting the rest of the team know, the team is lost and doesn’t know what to do. Changing the play is good, but if you’re changing it all the time and not telling everyone, you’re not running a play, you’re simply running wild.
Graphs go up and down based on the numbers that fuel them. They create trends in what has happened and what might happen next. But they are not the story, they are the jump point for the story about the trends. Why did it happen? What changed in our usage? What was going on at that time? Trends are good, but only if we can explain them.
If you know where you are headed is not where you want to go, but you’re “committed” to getting there because you’ve already invested in the journey, it’s not going to get better when you get there. That’s a lot but simply – “if you are having trouble with the way you are doing things and you keep doing things that way, you’re headed for the exact same problems you have today” (I don’t know…