Take people on a journey. Do it because it matters. Create change. Start talking about it. Stop waiting for instructions. Stop hoping for permission. Remove management and replace it with leadership by example and conscious coaching. Do these things for your team because they elevate people. Creating enrolment might be the single strongest factor in lifting a team to unimagined heights. When we market to create change, we escape the risk of mere manipulation....
There’s not much difference between saying hi to 100% of your team when you get to work, and saying hi to 80% of your team. But the small difference from 80 – 100% is a huge difference. To someone it can be the difference between caring and indifference. Showing up vs. not showing up. Humanity changes radically with small adjustments. What’s the difference between greeting someone with a firm handshake or a hug?...
Your brain doesn’t output a higher wattage than anybody else’s. Neither does mine. Solving hard problems doesn’t come from intensity. You don’t “think harder” at it. Problems are solved during the approach phase. Like Luke Skywalker dropping bombs in the exhaust vents instead of hammering the deflector shields. We talk about problems as if they need to be cracked. But that sensation of cracking is analogous not to brute force, but to the feeling of a strong resistance followed by complete surrender....
Sometimes to be data driven means to compare and contrast original and variant, to require statistical rigour, to follow testing methodologies and isolate variables. That’s great when there’s a baseline. Sometimes to be data driven something else. It’s a search for the first data point. It’s sampling the tantalising, infinite space of possibility. This requires a different approach. Searching, making, and a different type of testing. It’s the difference between two simple questions:...
Even standing on the shoulders of giants, I’m unlikely to intentionally invent that which has not been invented in all our shared forevers. But I can steal something and tweak it. That’s easy. And given enough practice and volume, sometimes, I make something that looks deceptively new. What a wonderful accident.