Tag: Workplace Learning Report

Before You Act

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report

‘Treating an uncertain world as if it were predictable only gets you into trouble.’

‘If you can’t predict the future- and increasingly you can’t- action trumps everything.’

‘If you believe that passion and desire must be in place before you act, you may never start.’

‘Nothing happens until you take that first smart step.’

‘Before you act … you need to know what you want.’

‘The people who excel at creation don’t spend months or years assembling resources. They like to get started quickly- immediately, if possible.’

‘A key part of moving forward is understanding current reality.’

‘In the worst of all possible worlds, you are going to fail quickly and cheaply as a result of using Creation. That is not a bad thing.’

‘You are only one thought away from an insight that can make a problem go away, perhaps turning it into an opportunity in the process.’

‘Problems are good news (almost always). Really.’

Source:

Leonard A. Schlesinger, Charles F. Kiefer, & Paul B. Brown (2012). Just Start: Take Action, Embrace Uncertainty, Create the Future

Time For Bold Risks

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report

‘When you feel fear, remind yourself that it might indicate that you’re on the edge of a creative breakthrough. That’s not wishful thinking. That’s science.’

‘When it’s time to dream big and imagine, keep the extrinsic incentives away. When it’s time to refine and grind out an execution, a little friendly competition, low-level prizes, and creative rewards can work wonders.’

‘Spend time doing things that make you a beginner again.’

‘What can you do to remind yourself and those you lead that you’re aiming to be an explorer, not an expert.’

‘When you encounter rules that limit your creativity, first suggest they be changed, and if that doesn’t work, be open about your intention to break them.’

‘… Minimizing unhelpful rules can release creativity.’

‘People are more likely to act and think in unsafe ways when the environment around them is safe.’

‘Pushing ourselves to spend less time as experts and more time as explorers loosens overly rigid knowledge networks and gives us a personal edge as thinkers and creatives.’

‘As a leader do you work to make sure everyone feels safe enough to take risks?’

‘Why do so many of us stay comfortably in our own domains, inadvertently becoming more fixed and rigid?

Source:

Jonah Sachs (2018). Unsafe Thinking: How To Be Nimble & Bold When You Need It Most