Anti-platitude

When you’re changing, vanity and ego are some of the fastest ways to lose focus. Your WHY shouldn’t be a shopping list. There’s nothing wrong with achieving just one thing - as long as it’s the right thing.

You don’t fight organisational complexity with more complexity. You fight it with clarity and simplicity. Only change what’s needed, no more.

How important is situational uniqueness really? Are you dismissing an idea because you don’t think it will work, Or because you don’t want it to?

It’s so easy to build a change with you at the centre of it. Your will, your decisions, you way. But what if you’re wrong?

Something is valuable if its worth paying for (in either time, effort or money). If no one’s paying, Then it’s not simply not valuable enough to them.

We inspire others, not when we’re perfect, But rather when we show how an imperfect person leads anyway.

Where do we draw the line with lying? We accept it from both magicians and politicians. Yet we applaud it from the first, and despise it from the latter. What standard do you hold yourself to as a change leader?

Your past self knew less than your current self. Should they really be the standard you keep comparing yourself with?

If given the choice - would you prefer a cone of hipster gelato, or a 10km run? I suspect most of you would choose the cone. Yet, as Change leaders we expect to catalyse short term pain for long term gain. So, if you chose the cone, then you’re perfectly capable of empathising with those you’re looking to change. Do so.

The unexpected is scary because it’s unknown. But finding $100 on the road is ‘made my day’ unexpected. As a change leader, often your job is to plant that $100 there for someone else to find (and hence talk about…)