Leaders, when your direct reports are doing things that you wish they didn’t do, have they learned it from you?
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Setting a leadership example is a double-edged sword
Tag: Mistakes
A never ending cycle of mismanagement
Who expects extraordinary work from people who aren’t trusted to create it?
A fool?
Probably.
Disorganized and unfocused leaders spend way too much time on things that don’t matter.
Continuously cleaning up after mismanaged and mislead employees is a slow death.
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Four foul words no one wants to admit
As you skim through Facebook, do you ever ask yourself:
• “Do i lie to myself?”
• “Am i satisfied?”
• “What makes me come alive?”
• “What’s the point of Facebook anyway?”
Made a private and ridiculously impossible goal in 2014.
For one year, do not use four words:
• i • me • my • mine •
Not in corporate communications with clients and colleagues and bosses, not on social media comments, replies. Not in emails or texts. Not on 1,865 annual blog posts…
Not once.
This has bled over to today, March 22, 2015.
The craziest thing?
No one even noticed.
So why do it?
That’s the big question in our lives isn’t it?
Why do transformational things if they are so small no one will detect any change?
Am ready to begin using them again, on a microscopic scale, beginning today. It was an extraordinary learning experience, because it was so visibly invisible.
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Do world class organizations make big mistakes?
We should always remember to take solace in making mistakes, even big ones.
Disney characters were not part of the original vision for Epcot Center in 1982, when Walt Disney World’s second theme park opened to the public. The only place you could find Mickey Mouse was on the drain covers, in the photo above.
How did Disney miss the obvious?
How do we?
Forgive yourself, fix it, move forward.
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The main illusion stopping people from chasing their dreams
(photo: Walt Disney seemed to have a midas touch. Truth is, his creativity was honed from a simple business reality – survival of the fittest.)
The main illusion stopping people from chasing their dreams like they mean it?
Waiting until they are ready.
Being ready is an illusion.
It never happens.
You can prepare, but you can never be truly ready.
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Note: One small example of how Disneyland was a successful failure. Even though he prepared, he realized only after the fact that he hadn’t purchased enough land. He severely underestimated the size of his dreams.