I mentioned the idea of a “clarity break” yesterday and thought I’d unpack it a bit more. It’s a concept that I’ve struggled with over the years, but find great value from when I do it regularly. The EOS Worldwide blog defines it as: A clarity break is a regularly scheduled appointment on your calendar […]
Leadership
Busy isn’t the goal
When asked “what’s going on?”, I think we’ve all said it: “Super busy.” That response is usually seen as being a good thing, so we keep going back to it. Is that really the goal, though? In Greg McKeown’s book Essentialism, he has a variety of things to say about busyness. His main point: What […]
Good decisions can have bad outcomes
As humans, we too often judge the quality of a decision based on the outcome, when many other factors (often luck) play into it. The “Resulting Fallacy” is a case where we create too tight a relationship between the quality of the outcome and the quality of the decision. Or as poker player Annie Duke […]
Leadership isn’t about who goes first
I consider Andy Stanley to be a leader in every sense of the word. If you’re not familiar with Andy, he’s the senior pastor of North Point Community Church, speaker, author, podcaster and much more. If you ask someone that knows Andy if they consider him a leader, they’ll almost certainly say yes. Andy’s churches […]