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“We’re training them to stand up so that we can stand down.”
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Leaders must prepare those coming behind them to stand up so that, when the time comes, they can responsibly stand down. This requires developing their judgment, giving them the authority to act and ensuring they can carry responsibility when the leader is no longer in the room.…
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No Matter How Good You Are, You Can Always Learn
Todays Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Matthew McConaughey spent a weekend reading decades of negative reviews to discover what he could still learn about his craft. This serves to remind us that success does not eliminate the need for learning, and that becoming better requires the judgment to separate useful feedback from opinions…
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Better Results Don’t Always Mean We’re Getting Better
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Improved results do not necessarily mean that we have improved our ability to produce them. As Trinidad and Tobago anticipates an economic recovery, it is worth considering whether we are strengthening the capabilities needed to sustain progress or simply waiting for conditions to become more favorable. Trinidad…
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Discipline is not always about doing more
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Discipline is not always about doing more; sometimes it requires us to recognize when continuing no longer makes sense. The challenge is knowing when the situation calls for greater persistence and when it calls for us to stop, reconsider or change direction. We tend to recognize discipline…
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What clarity looks like when it is converted into action over time.
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Warren Buffett did not wait for succession to become urgent before deciding what Berkshire Hathaway would need without him. For decades, he turned clarity into action, using each decision to make the next one easier when the time came. When should a leader begin thinking about succession?…
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What Martha Stewart Built Before Her Category Had a Name
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Martha Stewart was building what we would now call a personal brand, creator business and lifestyle empire years before the language existed to describe any of it. Her story is a useful reminder that sometimes the work becomes clear before the category does. When Martha Stewart started…
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Decide, then Do
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Many of us treat how we feel about a choice as evidence of whether we made the right one. But our feelings can come and go while we continue to act according to what we have already decided. Tomorrow morning, you probably won’t feel like engaging in…
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What Is the Minimum Condition Necessary for Your Purpose to Be Fulfilled?
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: We often confuse what we are accustomed to doing with what must be done, gradually adding conditions until the threshold for action becomes unnecessarily high. Asking what minimum condition is necessary for the purpose to be fulfilled can help us separate what is essential from everything we…
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Breaking the Cycle of Broken Fixes
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: When a problem keeps returning despite repeated attempts to fix it, the failure of those solutions becomes information worth examining. Before investing in another fix, it may be time to ask whether the problem has been accurately understood in the first place. When the same problem keeps…
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The Burden of the First Answer
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: The first plausible explanation for a problem can become the anchor for everything we think and do next. Better decisions sometimes require us to release that first explanation and be curious enough to look more closely at the evidence, especially the pieces that do not align with…
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