Lack of expectations and direction can cause chaos—or an alternate reality beyond your belief.
Quickly say what you need to say, then get out of the way.
Make space for your teammates to jump in. Their work will open doors you didn’t even know existed.
How long will you continue to tolerate the ugly landscape?
You’ve observed the weeds for long enough. It’s time to stop blaming them and begin pulling them out!
When we’re honest about finding a solution, we’ll find it was right under our noses the entire time!
How do you teach someone to build a house if they’ve never seen one before? It’ll lead to frustration and a dead end.
It helps to show an example, so they know what they’re working towards.
The only difference between a flower and a weed is judgement.
Discover an unexplored world by choosing to see them as flowers.
‘I get to do this’ is important to fire-up people.
‘I have to do this’ is important to set them off.
If you want a rose, respect her thorns.
Why are you going there?
If you’re not running away from something, what are you going towards?
According to the Pareto Principle, 20% of your actions produce 80% of the results. If there was ever a superlative hack, it’s this.
What 20% of your action will get you 80% there?
Your team can move the needle faster than ever before by answering this simple question.
Don’t fight fear. Afterall, fighting can be final and fear is also created by God.
Dance with fear to find a way forward.
Afterall, fear may not go away and decide he wants to stay a little longer. As a gentleman he’ll eventually will get the message. Until then, dance.
You can anticipate most reviewer comments with inverted thinking.
Think through the message forward and backward.
If you want to get something passed through reviewers, ask yourself, ‘How can this be unacceptable?’ Find the answer and then try to avoid it.
