Great leaders are sometimes unreasonable people. They don’t accept the conventional wisdom embraced religiously by others. To achieve significant breakthroughs, they sometimes reject the accepted orthodoxy and reframe what is possible. In traditional ways of thinking, leaders must choose between two competing outcomes. As the saying goes, they can’t have their cake and eat it too. Confronting the
Turning either/or into both/and was readily accepted by my Team. It creates a better dialog and allows us to stay in the problem longer. I wonder how hard it would be to extend either/or to include three variables - cheap, fast, good. Which companies pass that test? Two that come to mind are In-N-Out and Cick-Fil-A. Oh, now I'm hungry. Thanks for the post today!
I'd like to dispel the tradeoff that you have to sacrifice your family or you personal life in order to be an extraordinary performer at work. I've readily accepted that for too long.
Doesn't mean I'm not going to be a high performer, I just don't want to accept I can't "be admired" in more than one circle.
Turning either/or into both/and was readily accepted by my Team. It creates a better dialog and allows us to stay in the problem longer. I wonder how hard it would be to extend either/or to include three variables - cheap, fast, good. Which companies pass that test? Two that come to mind are In-N-Out and Cick-Fil-A. Oh, now I'm hungry. Thanks for the post today!
I'd like to dispel the tradeoff that you have to sacrifice your family or you personal life in order to be an extraordinary performer at work. I've readily accepted that for too long.
Doesn't mean I'm not going to be a high performer, I just don't want to accept I can't "be admired" in more than one circle.
The leaders who become unreasonable about frameworks are fun to watch.
The leaders who become unreasonable about areas like employee performance are the nightmare.
Some of the ones mentioned above are a little bit of both.