Bushcraft. Values Based Decision Making. Thank you for visiting my blog! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks again and Blessings! Values-based decision-making is a concept I use both in my executive coaching and in my life choices. As an executive coach working with clients, one of the first steps that I do is to help the client identify their values. Probably even more important than organizational values are the individual’s personal values. If there is a lack of congruence in the individual values and the organizational values, an individual’s employment becomes work.
When an individual’s values are congruent with the organizational values, employment takes on a sense of calling and can be very fulfilling for the individual (and profitable for the organization). Just as organizations need to identify their purpose and values in order to meet their marketplace needs and be competitive and successful, individuals also need to understand and identify their values. The Data-Driven Life. Photo Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we can’t even answer the simplest questions. Where was I last week at this time? How long have I had this pain in my knee? That is, some of us do.
A few months ago, Barooah began to wean himself from coffee. Barooah wasn’t about to try to answer a question like this with guesswork. He was sad but also thrilled. Five years ago, Ben Lipkowitz, who is now 28, was living with some friends in Bloomington, Ind., and he found himself wondering how much time he spent doing one of his roommates’ dishes.
Another person I’m friendly with, Mark Carranza — he also makes his living with computers — has been keeping a detailed, searchable archive of all the ideas he has had since he was 21. These men all know that their behavior is abnormal. Or, by another standard, you could say it got better. Then four things changed. Drinking. Strategy, Why Strategic Planning is Important? When we talk about strategic planning sometimes we associate with paperwork, theories, old school works, a boring and endless task, and so on. But actually planning is a natural and embedded activity that we practice everyday. We plan the best route to go to the office. We plan when we go shopping. We plan our vacations. With strategic planning we have a enlarged scope, a little more of variables, an expanded timeline, defined methodologies (tools) and usually we need to write it.
Talking with focus on startups and SMBs (small and medium businesses), the strategic planning is a fundamental tool to avoid "lose the path in the middle of the running". It is like a "compass" and a "user manual", to help entrepreneurs to surpass initial stages of a startup and to help SMB to go to the second level and increase business and results. As a Strategic Plan is not a static document, it should be revised periodically and updated. Finishing the Plan, you will be in control of the situation. Why today’s leaders are so often out of touch with reality | Slow Leadership.
Seven critical questions to assess your leadership | The Practice of Leadership. Your Circle of Control, Your Behavior Drives Results. Your Circle of Control, Your Behavior Drives Results Email Details Category: Leadership Skills Do you ever get so caught up in problems with clients, colleagues, results, angry customers that you lose sight of the only true thing you control, your behavior? You are probably already sitting there thinking, this article is a waste of time. I have to focus on customers. I have to focus on results. Do you want to live like that? Circle of Control: How do you break the cycle of frustration? You can break the cycle of hopelessness and the feeling of lack of control by focusing on your behaviors and activities within your circle of control.
Things you don’t control may surprise you. What's in your Circle of Control? The illustration used for Circle of Control is a simple circle. The reason we picture this as a bull’s-eye is because of the need to so clearly focus on the center of the bull’s-eye to hit it. Your Behaviors Drives Results. What Is Your Plan For Personal Growth? You won’t grow to your potential without a plan. You’ll get older, but not better. Experience guarantees nothing. Growth is intentional. If you are not growing you’re just putting in time. Waiting. Crucibles of Leadership by Robert Thomas, is an important book that asks, “What is your personal learning strategy?” We all have crucibles, but it’s what we do with them that is important.
Thomas says that we have to change our approach to learning. Preparation is essential to learning. Organizations too, can tap into the power of a PLS by adopting an experience-based approach to their leadership development program. One important note on a trap that people and organizations sometimes fall into in their zeal to develop character and leadership, Thomas writes, “We create enough pressures to perform that we don’t need to invent new ones just so that we can accelerate leader development. Accomplished leaders say that experience is their best teacher. The CEOs Innovation Nightmare. The news cameras roll as the chief executive of one of the nation's largest companies boldly outlines his well-thought-out, incredibly detailed vision for changing his dinosaur industry. "Innovation will be the cornerstone on which we build our future," he says. "For too long, we have relied on our great brand, loyal customers, and fine workforce to carry the day.
But the world is changing, and our customers and shareholders are counting on us to deliver new products and services. Our competitors haven't recognized this fact. The next day, a huge plaque is hung in the corporate lobby that boldly proclaims, "Core Value No. 1: Innovation. " And then something unfortunate happens. Nothing. After a blizzard of memos outlining what the "new" company is going to look like, everything stays the same. Surrounded by Bears In the world of investments, there are bears, and there are bulls. We love bullish CEOs, but we're pretty sick of working with bears. What is to be done? Some Helpful Tips Finally:
5 Leadership Lessons: How the Best Get Better and Stay That Way. Sports psychologist and executive coach Graham Jones believes that the real key to excellence in both sports and business is mental toughness. In the current Harvard Business Review he writes that the most successful people do five things to get better and stay that way. Learn to Love the Pressure. To do that you must dedicate yourself to constant self-improvement. That is made a lot easier if you learn to compete with yourself and block out the drama of those around you. It’s a choice. “Greg Searle, who won an Olympic gold medal in rowing, is often asked whether success was worth the price. Fixate on the Long Term. Iron Sharpens Iron. Reinvent Yourself. Celebrate the Victories. In the end, the keyword is resilience. Positive or negative: What world view are you creating? | The Practice of Leadership. Link: Making Personal Growth Last|Life Coaches Blog. Scott Young has a fantastic series of posts called Making Personal Growth Last.
He makes a lot of good points that I agree with so much that I wished I had written those posts But since he’s already done such a good job of it, all I’ll do is offer my own take on some of them here. Don’t Expect Quick Fixes Every other book and personal development course out there is promising you the most incredible results by the time you take to read their titles or less. I’m not saying a quick fix isn’t possible (I’ve seen it happen), but expecting it is another ballgame from doing it.
I saw this a lot of times in my coaching and seminar experience. A lot of people buy into the hype of quick and instant change without a lot of hard work, and it seems to me a symptom of a lazy attitude rather than a willing commitment to make changes work. Do the Best You Can David Allen makes this point very well in his excellent book Ready for Anything; aim to do your best, not be the best. Brutal Honesty with Vision. How To Suck and Still Be On Top|Life Coaches Blog. Ahem, disregarding the highly suggestive title of this post… I’m going to tell you how to suck and still be on top…in a personal development sort of way.
Only. I got this idea from reading Death by risk-aversion on the always good Creating Passionate Users. While Kathy talks about risk aversion in the state of companies, you can also read it through as it applies to you, personally. While I expounded on how important it is to your personal growth to stretch, she says it this way; Here’s where the Buddhists have an edge. There! Oooo. Remember, anything worth doing is worth doing badly…at first. I’m expounding on stretching again and again because I sincerely believe it is the one principle that will virtually guarantee you accelerate your personal growth beyond anything you can imagine. When was the last time you took a good risk that stretched you and grew you? Business leaders provide studies in innovation. "Innovation.
" As business terms go, it's one of the more nebulous. To some companies, innovation is at the core of their values. To others, it's a recession-inspired euphemism for cutting costs. The Download asked five local business leaders how they define and implement innovation. Here's what they said: Dave McQueeney chief technology officer, IBM Federal Contractors' definition of innovation can often be colored by the needs of their clients. In 22 years at IBM, McQueeney has been evenly split between client relations and research and development. " But when left to the often-overactive mind of a researcher, an order to innovate can overshoot that key junction and fail to meet a client's need. Tim O'Shaughnessy chief executive, LivingSocial Employees at online coupon purveyor LivingSocial have the principle of innovation driven home right when they begin work through what O'Shaughnessy called company credos.
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