A Bruise That Won’t Heal
Choose a lousy leader. Punish everyone around them.
Charisma dazzles. Results impress. Neither proves leadership ability.
Three common mistakes turn a leader into a bruise that won’t heal.
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Save String Too Short to Be Saved
“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.
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
Breaking Bottlenecks
Bottlenecks protect the status quo.
A bottleneck is blocking your efforts to make things better. Now what?
A bottleneck…
Buries themselves in detail.
Chooses what is over what might be.
Uses policy and procedure to control.
Closes their ears.
How to bust bottlenecks…
The Unexpected Blunder
Learning from mistakes is hard. Ego, defensiveness, blame, avoidance, and fear prolong stupidity.
Learning from success is nearly impossible.
Workaholics succeed. Manipulators get ahead. Cutting corners pays for a while.
Failure asks questions. Success makes stupid look smart.
The Unexpected Blunder of Letting Success Make You Stupid
3 Quiet Weeks
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…