Leading Thoughts for October 24, 2024

IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with:

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Errol Doebler on being in the moment:

“Emotions are simply a record of the past. We spend an inordinate amount of time on our negative emotions of the past, and, as such, we’ve become neurochemically addicted to them. Because of this addiction, we are bringing the past into the present. We now extrapolate that emotion into the future. We already know how we are going to feel in the future because we are bringing it forward from our past emotions. If you are not in the present moment, you are somewhere else. That somewhere else is the past you’ve become addicted to and the future you’ve become addicted to based on the past you can’t let go of. This a scary proposition.”

Source: Ice Cold Leader: Leading from the Inside Out

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Behnam Tabrizi on processes:

“Processes are just a means to an end, often used to make management scalable. But as companies become large and managers become remote serving customers, processes become an end to themselves, often so complicated that most people don’t know how to navigate beyond them. They compromise on customer service in order to meet the requirements of the process. They focus on inputs, not outputs, and lose sight of the connection.”

Source: Going on Offense: A Leader’s Playbook for Perpetual Innovation

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