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This is Where We Distill Our Genius.
Looking for a dose of inspiration or a new perspective? Or simply need something to get your brain going Friday morning? Morning Cup is a weekly musing that makes your musing machine muse a little bit more. It is the dose of insight on Friday morning that kickstarts your brain in a simple manner. We promise to have your mind brewing in less than 3 minutes.
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Sometimes the work of “getting there” is less about following a plan and more about confirming your commitment that “there” is where you want to be.
Making a strategy is easy. Making a strategy amidst year end and a dozen other factors is an uphill slog.
Your mind will quickly fixate on the destination involved with transition and overlook the necessary time for learning.
Are you haunting your employees? Maybe a little more ghost-approach would be beneficial.
The middle ground of just good enough and perfect is simply good and it is tricky to land on consistently.
Considering leadership in terms of phases rather than a position to be held can enable a clearer focus on contribution.
Engaging in Flow state is a process of finding a cognitive task that enables you to be here, now.
Success amidst the journey, rather than as the outcome, is integral in how your brain adopts and develops new skills.
Tenure affords greater context for decisions; it also increases certain assumption-based risks.
The goal is not to feel settled in pressure situations, it is to accept the unsettled as a byproduct of the moment.
You prepare for what will happen by challenging your mind to be ready for what may happen.
The clarity with which you can see where your contribution is needed ties directly to your satisfaction and engagement.
Action potential is the amount of electronic stimulus required to make a neuron fire; goals work the same way.
The more responsibility you take on as a leader does not directly correlate to an equal ability to fight more battles.
Evolution is easy to reflect upon once complete; in the middle it just feels like adversity.
Developing the awareness to savour the brief moments of calm in your day, when they emerge, is an underrated skill.
Your experience of an objective reality is filtered through a myriad of un-objective processes.
You are in a continuous state of arriving, though oftentimes you are unaware of doing so.
Immense excitement for coffee is a brewhaha