Blueprint

Like a blueprint is used to build a building, goals are used to build a business.

What is the medium term (2-3 year) outcome you are going for?

What is the plan for this month to get there?  

What are the steps you need to take now?

What is the very next step?

What do you need to do RIGHT NOW then?

What direction are your taking this?

Your leadership ability should be improving as you get more experience.  

You can look at where your organization is to see your past results.

You can look at what direction your organization is moving, to see your future results.

What direction is your organization moving?

Strive

We weren’t made to give up.  Bad and sad things happen to people when they give up.

How far should you go?  As far as you can.

How much should you do?  As much as you can.

What are you becoming?

It’s not what you get by leading this enterprise or group that makes you valuable.  It’s what you become in the process that makes you valuable.

What are you becoming?

Removing Constraints

Even if some employees/departments/processes in your business are going well, if you have one area that is choking/constraining/poisoning the company, what is it?

Spending time removing constraints can be a bigger benefit than building on strengths.

What/who is your number one contraint?

It's hard to influence without a great reputation

Leadership is the action and ability to influence.  To be the influence you want to be, you have to build a great reputation.

Have you done that?

Don't sell out

Beware of what you become, in pursuit of what you want.

Find Quiet Time

In the old days, boredom was something people experienced at times.  In today’s age of smart phones, nobody is bored anymore.  We are all continually entertained and distracted; and there is no limit to the content available to you at any moment.

The downside is we don’t take time to think and process and generate our own ideas.  We need to SCHEDULE quiet time to be with our own thoughts, away from the influence of other’s content and agendas.

Quiet time is not always just you.  Often it’s you and something – your work, your project, your hobby – but without the rest of the world interrupting.

Don’t you love your quiet time?

Schedule it if you have to. 

"Monk Mode"

It’s hard to get things done with distractions.  You may need to go into “Monk Mode”.  Sequester yourself to write, work, study, get a project done in solitary confinement.

It’s amazing what you can get done with distraction free time in distraction free space.

Communicate to your people

The big stuff.  The stuff you think you don’t need to say.  The obvious.

Often.

Don’t forget.