Impatient leaders can be like junkies looking for a fix. They get the sweats for results. When results lag, impatience turns to exasperation. But sometimes being impatient is good.
The challenge is managing impatience, not that you feel it.
Have enough ego to believe you earned a seat at the table. By “enough ego,” I mean grounded confidence, not inflated importance.
Have enough humility to remember you didn’t arrive on your own.
Too little ego shrinks you. Too much ego blinds you.
People change when they see things they didn’t see.
New perception. New action.
Learn four things to see differently.
“A man was cleaning the attic of an old house in New England and he found a box which was full of tiny pieces of string. On the lid of the box there was an inscription in an old hand: ‘String too short to be saved.’” Donald Hall
Some things seem too small to matter.
I’d rather avoid the room than work the room.
Networking drains introverts who think they have to act like extroverts.
There’s a better way.
One person. One question. One conversation at a time.
Responsible mistake-making promotes growth. But dumb mistakes waste your energy.
Don’t learn everything from personal experience. It’s too expensive.
A good opportunity can be a destructive distraction.
Urgencies seduce you toward insignificance.
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