Nora's Blog Leadership – The Individual Journey

It is complicated

Doesn’t it seem that we spend way too much time doing things that we don’t like to do and not nearly enough time on what we enjoy?

Or, we work really hard, but it doesn’t get us the results we seek?

There are so many ways to do things, yet we do them in the same way we always did them. It just seems easier, or faster or less complicated.

But, life is complicated. And, sometimes we need to get really clear about where to focus.

Working with a wonderful team at a growing entrepreneurial company I suddenly realized that while we were talking about strategy at the 30,000 foot level, it was not what they most needed to do. They didn’t need one more exercise in strategic goal setting, but rather to take one idea and peel it down layer by layer until every commitment and each step was on the calendar for all employees involved in making this project a success. This is a company that is always in such a hurry to put out the next fire, that customers who should have been ecstatic with the quality of their product, were left annoyed at small details that weren’t addressed.

Sometimes we just need to focus on execution. If it is not working take it apart and try doing it another way-stop suffering.