Meditations On Leadership
These are my thoughts on leadership related topics and ideas. It is meant to be a sort of journal for me and if you find it useful than I am happy to have helped.
"If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing." -W. Edwards Deming The way the problem is framed can sometimes lead you to answer the wrong question. For example, someone comes into your office and says that traffic to your new website is up but sales are down. With that information you might assume that something is wrong with the new website and you might call a meeting to try and solve the problem of the new website. However, the problem might not be the website at all. It might be that the market is getting saturated or that a competitor is running a sale and drawing customers away. It could be a hundred other things but if that problem was framed that the website is the cause of the lack of sales you run the risk of answering the wrong problem. Leadership LessonAsk yourself if you are answering the right question. Ask your team to challenge the assumption behind the problem. Make sure that your energy is focused in the right place. Remember what Einstein said: “If I had an hour to solve a problem, I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”
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April 2021
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