Metrics are important to your understanding of what’s happening in your organization – even imperfect metrics. They’re indicators of underlying process results – and every organization is perfectly designed to give you the results you’re getting. If you don’t like the results, change the system. Key metrics are your guide to know if your change efforts are being successful.
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Be A Realist and Protect Those Around You
optimist – someone who has a disposition or tendency to look on the more favorable side of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
pessimist – someone who has the tendency to see, anticipate, or emphasize only bad or undesirable outcomes, results, conditions, problems, etc.
realist – someone who is interested in or concerned for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
idealist – someone who has the tendency to represent things in an ideal form, or as they might or should be rather than as they are. [Read more…] about Be A Realist and Protect Those Around You
Reframe Difficulties into Advantages
The ability to see a situation in a different way is a powerful leadership tool. It’s called “reframing.”
Marine infantry are taught how to take out tanks. Tanks are loud, powerful, intimidating – but they have weaknesses that can be exploited. They use the expression “Hunting Tanks is Easy and Fun.” This is brilliant reframing: a Marine thinks of himself as the hunter having fun, rather than a puny human about to be crushed. [Read more…] about Reframe Difficulties into Advantages