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January 24 - January 29, 2023
“people who face a difficult question often answer an easier one instead, without realizing it.”
If I can’t create the thing I dream of, can I at least create the thing I’m capable of making?
“As expertise goes up, creative output tends to go down,”80 the Myths of Creativity author David Burkus says. It’s not that experts don’t come up with new ideas, Burkus says—it’s just that because of all their experience, they’re often “better at coming up with reasons why a new idea won’t work.” Bottom line: To remain creative, you must think and behave like a novice, always discovering.
The old image of leader as the one who has all the answers (or at very least, an unfailing “gut instinct”) simply doesn’t hold up in the age of VUCA. What is emerging instead is a profile of a new leader able to continually question those instincts, while
values, current focus, and future vision.
“When a leader says no to something, she is also usually saying no to someone and that takes courage,”
What should we stop doing? Drucker referred to this winnowing practice as “systematic abandonment,”
Also, ask why the rule should be eliminated; how they might change it; and whether they think it would be difficult to do so.
it clear what we’re doing and why?
You start by figuring out the culture you want, then you declare it, and then you create practices to support it. The “declaring” part is easy—too many leaders do that without backing up the declaration.
‘Look, I know we disagree on this, but will you gamble with me on it? [Can we] disagree and commit?’ ”71
