The 4 Disciplines of Execution
- Focus on the wildly important
- Create a compelling scoreboard
- Translate lofty goals into specific goals
- Hold each other accountable – all the time
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Does our Pursuit of Happiness hinder Getting Things Done?
Taking a bit of a flyer on this one. Not particularly thought through, but it struck me in preparation for a talk entitled The Science of Happiness.
In a line from Daniel Nettle’s great book ‘Happiness, The Science behind your Smile’ he states ‘…happiness, though, is not calculated by a simple summing up of all the positive moments and a subtraction of the negative ones. It also involves more complex cognitive processes, such as comparison with alternative possible outcomes (note: this quote refers to something he calls ‘level two happiness’ which is all about ‘judgements about the balance of feelings’. A hybrid of emotion and judgement about emotion.
Now it’s a very pop. psychology way of thinking about it, but could this element of our happiness ‘assessment’ also operate as a pre-assessment in advance of activities?
Leaders Learning Skills from their Teams
The Open Book by Dan Christian Lavric
Just something that occurred to me today as I was taking a note of what one of me client senior managers had said to me that I wanted to learn from.
How many leaders and managers consciously look to learn from their teams? How many are both open to the fact that they could learn from the people that they’ve hired and that work for them, as well consciously seeking out opportunities.
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