Everyone has their own narrative, everyone has their own story they tell themselves. Their hopes, their dreams, their purpose, their direction. It’s all wound up in your narrative. The goal of a leader is to get everyone’s narrative on the same page, everyone focused on the same narrative, everyone bought into it, and everyone working towards it. Directing the narrative is the first step to getting your team moving in the same direction.
We don’t know the problem until we know what it is. Everything up until that point is learning what the problem is. The faster you learn the problem, the sooner you know what to do with it. Everything else is noise, focus on the problem, plan the solution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwG4F-16Tno
People only look at the descriptions of your emails when they go to click the link to join the meeting. Otherwise, it’s an auto-accept. Your title is what will make or break the level of interest in your meeting. The excitement that enters the room. You want people coming in saying – “I don’t know what this is about, but I want to be here to hear it.” No subtitles – just one line to…
We go onto wikipedia to find the plot of a movie we didn’t want to watch the rest of or a book we didn’t want to finish. We have that innate urge to know what happened because as we sat there reading or watching, we couldn’t figure it out. The same goes for your team, if you can’t find the plot, if you can’t direct it, if you can’t call it out – all your…
Many video games are based on similar engines and formulas. They know what works and they follow that plan, new games come along because the engine is proven and they re-use it to save money. The formula stays the same with little to no improvement, costs decrease, and the need to do “well” drops because development time was saved and we can do “meh”. Or you can stay in a hole for a while, or…