Economically, considering the future is natural. Including the present and time spent to achieve a decision around the future takes a bit more focus.
Read MoreStandards can feel constraining. A lack of standards can feel overwhelming. Thoughtful leaders find a balance, and awareness, in between.
Read MoreYou have a plan to get organized and a strategy for a process. Yet the immediacy of acting today gets in the way; time to think about it differently.
Read MoreYour mind is naturally drawn towards gamified situations; the risk arises when the reward of winning overshadows the purpose of playing.
Read MoreWe process observations and thoughts incessantly. Taking the time to reflect around how those two inputs affect each other happens much less.
Read MoreSeeing capacity in terms of limitation is easy; occupancy capacity, for example. Seeing the limitation, especially when intangible, takes leadership.
Read MoreThe fear of a monster under the bed is more than a childhood dilemma; it is an iteration of a recurring unconscious fear of the unknown.
Read More20/20 is a measurement of visual acuity based on adult humans. The proliferation of other species shows that clarity can be accomplished many ways.
Read MoreOrnaments without context quickly become novel trinkets; leaders are responsible for navigating the narrative.
Read MoreYou are not going to find many folks who say investing in people is worthless; actually doing it, though, is more complex.
Read MoreBinary thinking drives us to make absolute distinctions; when it comes to the words we use, binary logic should be exercised with caution.
Read MoreTo be centric is to be central to something; different problems require different centricities, yet most teams are not equipped to pivot accordingly.
Read MoreIt is exciting to consider how an investment grows over time; it is also easy to ignore the inverse correlation that occurs with investments of time.
Read MoreOne of the great ironies of performance is that most failures are not due to lack of ability; rather, they are due to an inability to begin.
Read MoreTaking responsibility becomes so entwined with our motivation for performance that we lose track of whose responsibility it is in the first place.
Read MoreImperfection, as a concept, extends beyond acceptance and self-compassion. In practice, it is tied to your decision-making capacity.
Read MoreSometimes doing less can generate more benefit. Other times, actively doing nothing is exactly what is needed.
Read MoreThe best way to create individual behaviour change just might be to take the focus off the individual themselves; and also off what is going poorly.
Read MoreBelief may not be a line item in your P&L, but do not let its lack of quantification fool you. It is as real as anything else in your budget.
Read MoreOne of the quintessential traits of humanity is the ability to imagine. An incredible tool, it is also unreliable in accurately predicting the future.
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