Something on my mind early this morning, how do we manage life balance? Hobby, Family, Health, and Wealth are the buckets and you only get 100 points to spread out into them. You can use zeros, but for how long. At what cost?
Author Archives: Patrick
the prision of self doubt
Do you count the reasons something can’t be done, or focus on forward momentum? Why? When did you stop believing in your ability to deliver – or, conversley, why did you never stop believing? Both are equally interesting to answer.
avoiding loss or risking gain
Business is stuck in a rut. Established businesses focus on avoiding risk to the detriment of creating gain. Employees believe, I think falsely, that they protect the business by ‘doing their job, sticking to process’ when these are precisely the activities that endanger the business (and by extension the individual employees livelihood) in the long …
mentorship and structure
Who are your mentors, what role do they fulfill? What are mentor roles, how do you know? What do you need? What are you giving back in return? Always with the questions.
blocking immagination
some things in our way excessive compliance organizational silos depersonalization too much noise what other barriers have we put into place, once we name a thing – we can act upon that thing
psychological safety
How do we get to a place where team members feel safe to take risks and be vulnerable in front of each other? Where did their actions fall on the spectrum of failure – was is blameworth or praiseworthy? What is the difference – do you know? Do they know?
counterfactual investigations
We limit ourselves to what is – because that is what we know. Before everything became factual, familiar, respectable, and process oriented (beauracratic and risk averse) – what were the options on the table?
one impossible thing at a time
We don’t set out to change the world all at once, but we do set out.