Simple and easy rarely travel together.
Insight: Use diet and exercise to lower your cholesterol. Simple concept? Yes. Easy? Look around at people and decide for yourself.
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Simple Does Not Mean Easy
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Leadership Thinking
Leadership thinking 101:
- Saturate – gather all data
- Incubate – sit on it
- Illuminate – BFO
BFO = Blinding Flash of the Obvious.
Then:
- Launch
- Learn
- Revise
Finally:
- Repeat
Got it? Good. Now let’s all go do GREAT work today! Bring it on!
One Simple Tip to Avoid Waiting
Want a tip to help you resist the urge to wait? In a moment, I’ll share what happened last month, what I did about it, and how it impacted my leadership philosophy.
But it’s a double edge sword isn’t it? If consistency is the hallmark of quality, and continuous improvement is the key to becoming world class, how do you balance risk and reward?
Faced with a opportunity to do something the way I’ve always done it, or a way I’ve been dreaming about but always chicken out, I was once again presented the opportunity, but was afraid I’d pass on it again.
But not this time. Finally choose the way I had envisioned.
It was amazingly exhilarating! Why? Which is a good question because the thing I did differently, was actually very small in the big scheme of things.
Then why was it exhilarating? Because conquering a small fear builds the confidence to conquer another small fear.
Eventually, the fears that get conquered are bigger and bigger, until we are faced with very little fear that we can’t act on.
Well, we will always come across scary things, but the confidence to confront and conquer is a priceless ROI for small risk taking habit.
The key, the simple tip – “Do at least one thing each day that scares you.”