It’s a tough question to ask of yourself because it can only be answered by yourself. But once you ask it, you know what you do and don’t bring. And what you don’t bring becomes the plan for you to figure out how to get there.
Everyone wants to play in the big game. We spend all our time working up towards it, focused on it, moving forward toward it, and becoming something from it. We put so much into that big meeting that we feel as though everything is based on it and nothing else will matter. And then it’s over. And we start again.
It might seem as though you are being mean when you dissuade conversation or try to bring people back to the focus and purpose of the meeting. It’s even odd that this would be interpreted as mean. A team that goes into a meeting, chat on a topic for an hour with no discernible outcome is the definition of a “meeting that could have been an email.” Set the goal for the meeting, if you…
It happened, you have debt, and right now it might be akin to standing in a room with a mess all around you and you don’t know where to start. Despite everything that’s around you, you can’t do it all at once, to do so would mean putting the breaks on everything else you are doing – which most companies cannot afford primarily because customers are key. Where to start? Get the small wins -…
When you leave, you finish strong. You bring the end game. You leave no doubt who they are losing and what your potential is. You let them know they had the best and the brightest and they made the wrong trade. This isn’t about showing off or lording it over them. This is about doing what you have always done – driving to the problem, taking the initiative, and leading the way.