If you talk to anyone who has played games, they can tell stories of awkward hits and ones in the sweet spot. Decision making is like this
Decision Making
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From the Blog on leadership
Tennis or Golf?
When we seek change, innovation, or even seek to lead a team, it is tempting to play tennis, when often it is wiser to play golf.
Surfing
Part of the role of leadership is to watch organisations and industries. To ‘read’ them. When the ‘surf’ is good, leaders go surfing.
Good, but not Good Enough
‘You have to know how to encourage yourself how to be harshly critical and go, “That’s good, but it’s not good enough—take it out.”
‘Unproductive’ Time
How we spend our minutes can turn into habits. But perhaps we need more ‘unproductive’ time so we can create the change we seek.
Look for causes, not villians
When things go wrong, we often look for people to blame. We look for a villian, a scapegoat. Perhaps we should look for causes, not villians.
Form Filling
Our approach to data collection says a lot about our values – is about form filling or a relationship exercise?
Decide, Don’t Dither
Too often, when we realise the decision we need to make is not popular or might cause upset or angst, we dither, instead of deciding.
Building Planes and Spacecrafts
Most change makers are juggling being ‘in’ the system while trying to change the system – building spacecraft out of planes.