Epitaph

"He ran at life and scooped it up"

From "Murder in Provence"
Season 1 Episode 2

Screenshot 2024-01-23 at 12.58.16 PM

Do something different.

 From the "4 Disciplines of Execution" by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey and Jim Huling

"To achieve a goal you have never achieved before, you must start doing things you have never done before."  credited by the authors to a colleague Jim Stuart.

The Real Challenge

 From the "4 Disciplines of Execution" by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey and Jim Huling

Whether you call it a strategy, a goal, or simply an improvement effort, any initiative you as a leader drive in order to significantly move your team or organization forward will fall into one of two categories:  The first requires mainly a stroke of the pen: the second requires behavioral change.

Stroke-of-the-pen strategies are those that you execute just by ordering or authorizing them to be done.  Simply put, if you have the money and the authority, you can make them happen.  It might be a major capital improvement, a change in the compensation system, a realignment of roles and responsibilities, adding staff, or a new advertising campaign.  While executing these strategies may require planning, consensus, guts, brains, and money, you know that in the end it is going to happen.

Behavioral-change strategies are very different from stroke-of-the-pen strategies.  You can't just order them to happen, because executing them requires getting people - often a lot of people - to do something different.  And if you've tried to get other people to change their ways, you know how tough it is.  Changing yourself is hard enough.

Meme of the week

Post by FS on X

	FS ⁦‪@farnamstreet‬⁩ Common causes of bad decisions: 1. Assumptions based on small sample sizes 2. Wanting the world to work the way we want rather than the way it does 3. Conforming to expectations/authority/group (social default) 4. Blindness to large trends 5. Not asking, "and then what?"   1/4/24, 5:50 AM

Steven R Perryman CPA

httpswww.tiktok.com@brandycortervideo7320314521992645930is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7223822949374232110&fbcl

Post by Feynmanism on X

	Feynmanism ⁦‪@Feynmanism_‬⁩ A "razor" is a rule of thumb that simplifies decision-making. The 7 most powerful razors I've found: (Explain in 60 seconds) pic.twitter.com/E4HWnU8MVy   1/1/24, 6:41 AM

Steven R Perryman CPA

Intentions for the new year.

I saw this on Social Media somewhere over the New Years Weekend and thought it was worth sharing here.  I really like the lesson that #3 offers and have added it to my list of Leadership/Life Maxims.