Immaturity doesn’t stay inside a person. It bleeds on everyone.
One defensive person delays honest conversations. One hothead makes everyone walk on eggshells. An insecure leader turns talented people into threats.
One leader who needs to be right keeps everyone working on the wrong problem.
Gain insight into the immaturity penalty.
Comfort is a warning. Don’t wait for failure to change. Abandon what’s working before it fails.
Your Brain at Ease
Stops scanning for issues.
Stops challenging the process.
Stops questioning methods.
Starts protecting the past.
Comfort is unquestioned repetition.
Ease makes the pursuit of better impossible.
When you’re comfortable you’re sinking.
The secret pace wins the race.
Too fast and you collapse.
Too slow and finishing is irrelevant.
When you outpace capacity, people break.
Fast is fragile. Speed without capacity falls apart. No one give 100% all the time.
The secret pace takes teams farther than sprinting all day.
6 Practices That Set the Secret Pace…
A client said, “It’s been quiet for three weeks. I haven’t achieved the challenge you gave me months ago.”
My mind went to “shoe-drop” conversations. But he didn’t go there.
He referred to this challenge. “The next time we talk, I want you to complain about being bored.”
Creating and Maximizing Quiet…
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, works for roses, not people. People don’t like “any other name.” They like their own. I’m terrible with names. It might be genetic. I… Continue reading
A friend and client asked me what I’ve learned about stewardship. It’s the first time I’ve been asked. I wish there was more interest in stewardship because leaders are stewards.
I shifted the language from learned to learning when I texted back. People who think they’ve learned something haven’t. The best we can say is we’re learning and relearning.
Here are 5 ways to practices stewardship in leadership today.
