Everyday Reflections

“Leadership is not about forcing your will on others. It’s about mastering the art of letting go.”

Phil Jackson

Having a Clear Goal

Be clear about the goal you are trying to reach and differentiate between what “snaps you” versus what is the actual “pain”. Having that in mind allows one to go a little deep in defining goals and objectives that are more sustainable and prevents us from slipping into chaos. This way you may be able to iterate for a longer duration.

If this is not the case it will lead to many starts & stops thus creating higher involvement towards delivering purpose.

Operating Boundaries

For you as a leader to operate with more bandwidth given multi-tasking is a necessary evil, setting operating boundaries and seeing that the network effect takes care to connect you to the goals with others around you. We talk about a connected world but then suffer to operate with our personal baselines in an attempt to move faster. Establish accountability & coach people to exercise their judgment.

Do not benchmark everything centered around yourself as a leader. You will never be able to let go if that remains the case. 

Informal & short-run feedback

Improve your ability to give feedback to your network so that it improves its efficiency to collaborate & deliver results. Over a sustained period feedback loops activate creativity at problem-solving and thus aid towards a broader balancing act in the system.

As a person, you need to trust the network, or else you will not get into the cadence of letting go.

Coach To Lead

If by any stretch one deems himself to be in leadership position , the onus to find and groom people to lead is very pertinent. This is not very easy and will not come fast. It is time taking & involving exercise. If the network around you has to respond to future then we need more from within to lead and carry the weight.

It is matter of time , when you as a leader will start feeling the pain of not having focused on this , thus creating a pull back effect – an impediment towards our desire to let go.