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What If We Treated Fear as a Source of Information Rather Than Something to Retreat From?
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Fear can reveal gaps in our understanding, expose our need for control, or alert us to genuine risks. Learning to examine what fear is telling us, rather than automatically retreating from it, can help us make more deliberate decisions. Fear has an interesting way of influencing our…
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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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Life Is Short. We Find Endless Ways to Waste It.
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: We know life is short, yet we continue giving enormous amounts of time to obligations, expectations, unresolved situations and pursuits that may no longer deserve our attention. The greater cost is not simply the time we lose, but the life we could have been living, the opportunities…
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Duende: The Part of Excellence We Cannot Replicate
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: When we encounter exceptional performance, we often try to reproduce it by identifying and standardizing the behaviors we can observe, without establishing whether those behaviors are what actually make the person effective. The Spanish concept of duende invites us to consider what may be lost when we…
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Fear of losing a client is the single most expensive emotion in consulting
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Fear of losing a client can make us give away work, take on more than we agreed to and gradually shift the boundaries of an engagement without even realising it. In trying to hold on to the client, we may inadvertently teach them to expect more from…
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What’s in the Box, is what we Build
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: What is in our box (our brain) influences what we build externally, from the way we interpret what is happening to the decisions, actions, systems and results that follow. When those results are not moving us toward our vision, tracing them backwards can help us examine the…
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Stress directly shrinks your window of tolerance
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Stress does more than affect how we feel; it can change how we interpret what is happening and the decisions we make in response. Sometimes the most useful thing we can do before deciding is create enough space for our capacity to think clearly, to return. There…
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Don’t Make Fear the Organizing Principle of Your Life
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Fear does not always look like fear; sometimes it looks remarkably like preparation, responsibility, control or good judgment. The question may not only be what decision we are making, but how much fear is influencing the choice. Fear does not always show up in a way we…
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Why Understanding People Remains One of the Biggest Challenges in Organizations
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Whenever I ask people about the biggest recurring problem in their organization, I am struck by how often the answer is the same: people. Pablo Neruda’s We Are Many made me wonder whether one reason people remain so difficult to understand is that none of us is…
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Are You Incapable of Selling, or Is It This?
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: We are remarkably quick to turn repeated outcomes into identities: I can’t sell, I can’t lead, I’m not cut out for this. But before deciding what the result says about you, it may be worth diagnosing the conditions that produced it. Sometimes we turn repeated results into…
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