Random Thoughts
- If you find that you are worrying more about small things, that may be a sign that you are less in touch with the big things.
- Periodically ask yourself whether you are vigorously reacting or initiating. Initiating is better.
- Review the assumptions of your career and see how many are dependent upon not just good will or luck but questionable conclusions and magic. Unfortunately, magic is not a sound strategy.
- Pay attention to the incremental. It is either flowing for you or against you.
For years and years I have known that a boss three levels up who worries about particular telephone calls on the bill, or tip calculations on a meal voucher, is a boss of a hierarchy is that is leaderless and rudderless.
ReplyDelete(Hierarchies below it may be in good hands, but it will be in spite of the boss, not because of it.)
And I am not even the discoverer of that fact--I don't remember who I learned it from.
ReplyDeleteGood points, Larry.
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