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Well not always, every once and a while a free offer surprises me.
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what needs to be done right now in your business?
“The Zen-inspired painter seeks the ‘truth’ of a landscape, like that of religion, in sudden enlightenment. This allows no time for careful detailed draftsmanship. After long contemplation, he is expected to be able to seize inner truth in a swordlike stroke of the brush….”
Working as hard as you do it’s easy to become so focused on what you’re doing that you forget why you’re doing it.
Peter Drucker, often considered The Father of Management, formulated many concepts about business that we now take for granted.
In this particular case I’m refering to what he called “the activity trap,” and Drucker proposed “management by objective” as a way to avoid it.
So how do you maintain focus on your objective, the “what” rather than the “how,” and thereby keep innovation alive?
Are you confident that you really do know what needs to be done right now, for your investment of time, effort and money to not become insignificant?
Before jumping into my own day of “hurry hurry, rush rush” I began by taking a bit of time to Think.
That thinking motivated my sharing this post with you.
If this post has caused you to take a pause and Think, my time sharing this with you has been well spent.
Personally, what I’ve come up with about my own business, involving you now reading it 
is this:
“My job is to get both of our “wheels of thought” rolling by asking questions.”
“Your job in our masterminding the sharing of thought is to provide answers.”
For both of us this begins a journey of self-exploration, Peter Drucker would suggest,
“A journey of Self-Exploration with Five Essential Questions:”
1. What is your mission?
2 Who is your customer?
3. What does your customer value?
4. What are your results?
5. What is your plan?
Organized Planning, Step 6, will be the next step detailed in our sharing with you each of the Be All You Can Be 13 steps to Freedom.
Part of today’s research toward its writing had me read the following introduction to Peter Drucker. Who’s influence upon modern day business is now legendary.
It gifted me with some powerful thinking time.
As part of your own innovative thinking today give it a read, and take some notes of what about it inspires you.
I look forward to you sharing your comments to this post.
What are your results, having inspired each other by sharing our thoughts today, and taking these first steps of masterminding together?
Ref. “The Wisdom of Peter Drucker from A to Z” http://www.inc.com/articles/2009/11/Drucker.html
A quick “brush stroke” of it’s Z:
“Zen: In 1998, when the writer Harriet Rubin interviewed Drucker at his home for Inc., he showed her this passage from a book on Japanese art: “The Zen-inspired painter seeks the ‘truth’ of a landscape, like that of religion, in sudden enlightenment. This allows no time for careful detailed draftsmanship. After long contemplation, he is expected to be able to seize inner truth in a swordlike stroke of the brush….” Similarly, Drucker achieved enlightenment through quiet observation, waiting patiently until he saw an idea whole, then rendering universal truth in the swift space of a sentence. Thus was the essence of the master.”
Let us know what you think of the full article up at Inc.com
“The Wisdom of Peter Drucker from A to Z” http://www.inc.com/articles/2009/11/Drucker.html
What do you think is the biggest mistake that leaders make?
Photo of Tim and our son “Neo.”
Sam Deep’s recent blog post enlightened me with his insightful understanding of what I would call true-leadership (highlights and link to read the full article can be found at the bottom of this post).
It opened my eyes to a recent experience I had in the birthing room of a hospital when my wife gave birth to our son “Neo.”
What do you think is the biggest mistake that leaders make?
I look forward to you sharing your personal experience of being a leader and/or follower with your replies and comments.
Here is what I shared in response to Sam’s article:
“Deep and Insightful post Sam thank you.
It may not be a 12th major leadership mistake being similar to “5. Relating to people as objects,” but a distinction I’d like to add in any case.
Making the leadership mistake of…
“Being a Power over others, in place of a power to them”
…Though, I learned profoundly in a hospital birthing room just days ago it’s a mistake that can be made both ways!
As an American now living with my viking-wife on the fjord here in Norway and having just become parents to our son “Neo” provides the setting of my story. At almost 44 years old it certainly is not my first experience with “power over vs. power to” but 5am in a birthing room with my wife and professionals wielding very large needles certainly required me to draw upon all my past experiences with leadership.
Placing the epidural needle into my wife’s spine was not going well as she looked to me at a time when I felt powerless to lead anything but my own hand which must have stroked her head hundreds if not thousands of times by then. She was laying on her side and in ever increasing pain pleading with me to help her understand what the anesthesiologist was doing to her back!
Zero communication from the professionals in the room left me to guessing why the procedure had not been completed yet. After what seemed at least 4 attempts to place the needle into my wife’s spinal fluid failed…my being in the role of being a power to the anesthesiologist flipped when FINALLY she communicated to us that she’d like to “try” the procedure again.
Silly what comes to mind at certain times in our life, all I could think of then was Master Yoda in Star Wars saying to Luke Skywalker “…no try, do or don’t do…”
Applying my vocabulary, understanding and compassion to the situation required that I then and there become the leader of it.
Was I mistaken in my own personal leadership allowing someone to stick large needles into my wife’s back while attempting to lead us as “objects?”
It took me a while to realize it…but ultimately my answer was a resounding “Yes” when I stood up to a professional who had violated our trust.
Is it possible that being a power “over” ourselves is the prerequisite to extending power “to” another?”
What are your thoughts?
I’m looking forward to you sharing your story of leadership experience.
(Sam’s list of the 11 Biggest Mistakes the leaders make is:
- Succumbing to fear.
- Failing to hold people accountable.
- Refusing to learn.
- Not seeing themselves as others do.
- Relating to people as objects.
- Not delegating enough.
- Burying their heads in the sand.
- Valuing “what” over “how.”
- Acting unethically.
- Leading in a spoke network.
- Being a failure-preventer rather than a success-insurer.
I highly recommend reading the full post which can be found at:
http://www.asksamdeep.com/what-is-the-biggest-mistake-that-leaders-make
and the follow up post which can be read at:
http://www.asksamdeep.com/what-are-the-biggest-mistakes-that-leaders-make/ )
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