In Toronto for a couple very cold but very wonderful days. As I showed up yesterday the people I am working with were just finishing up a Gingerbread house competition. It was pretty amazing … I saw several entries that were good enough to be in some of those professional shows. What a tasty team builder.
Last night I was reading through one of my old learning journals that I brought with me on this trip. Here are couple treasures I wrote down nearly 11 years ago on my leadership learning journey.
“As your career grows what you need to know changes. You don’t get promoted to a position to learn the position, you get promoted because of what you already know.” (I realize there are exceptions to that and that we will always learn more in any position but I get the intent)
A good plan executed violently is better than a perfect plan not executed in time, or executed poorly. So have a good plan and DO IT!
Take 10 minutes before any meeting and plan your strategy for the meeting. What is it’s purpose for you, what do you need to get out of the meeting? After every meeting take a moment to summarize and gather action items. Without action items and accountability the meeting was meaningless.
In the life of nearly every project there comes a point where you must shoot the engineer and complete the project. (I don’t think we were as sensitive about saying “shoot” 10 years ago.
You can get more money, but not more time. When you spend a day, you have one less day to spend. A day is a chunk of your life.
Spend your day learning and you spend your day well!
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