How to Get Out of Day-to-Day Work
A leader I coach wants to spend less time running the business and more time leading.
Here are two emails I sent. How to get out of day-to-day work.
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Reject Backwards Accountability
Accountability is an agreement you own. It’s not a conversation you dread.
Accountability starts before the work begins. Don’t wait for failure. Prevent it.
Energize people with clarity, challenge, and support. Don’t beat them down after they screw up.
How to Become Scary Good
The vampire at my doctor’s office loves Halloween. She has a full-length bloody Halloween poster on her door.
She’s scary good at her job. She finds a vein, sucks my blood, and I don’t feel a thing.
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100,000 Bent Nails
Donald Hall tells the story of an eccentric who straightened bent nails.
When he died, he left a hundred thousand straightened nails. “…it was a sin to allow good material to go to waste.”
People are worth more than bent nails.
Build Encouragement into Environments
Telling people to “be encouraged” is like telling plants to grow.
Words matter, but environments win.
Encouragement matters because discouragement is real.
How to build encouragement into environments?
When to Quit
Persistence is noble until it’s stupid.
Don’t quit because something is difficult. Everything meaningful is difficult.
Quit because it’s no longer worthwhile.
Sometimes you win when you quit.
5 Signs It’s Time to Quit