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Everyone likes the change they initiate.

1. Think Like a Car

– The driver knows the direction.

– Focus on purpose: We obsess over what is changing, start obsessing over why it is changing

2. Think like a Transformer

– You might need to speed up the change!

– Quit Comparing: Comparing your present life to your past life is a losing proposition: Comparing adult life to kids life.

3. Think like Viktor Frankl

– The last of all human freedoms: to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.” Viktor Frankl

Side One: Clear is Kind

– Clear is kind, but it’s not ruthless.

Side Two: Clear will Ruffle Feather

– Clarity is kind, but clarity is rarely met with kindness.

Side Three: Clarity is the only thing that can invoke passion.

– People do not get excited about a general direction, but a specific destination.

Don’t be ruthless, but don’t be vague.

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The effective executive gets the right results. Their focus is on output and outcomes, not inputs and work flow.

The most important decisions you will make are about priorities and people.

Priority Decisions:

Priority Decisions become far easier and fewer with a framework.

Framework Leadership by Kent Ingle, President of Southeastern University.

To effectively make priority decisions you need thinking time.

People Decisions:

“People are chess, not checkers.” Marcus Buckingham

Character and integrity do not accomplish anything, but their absence faults everything- character isn’t a plus, it’s a non-negotiable. – Peter Drucker

Decision Principles:

Know what end you’re working towards.

Know what action needs to be taken.

Include Communication within the decision itself.

There is no resource that is more finite than your time; which means there is no resource that is more valuable than your time.

You can’t know where your time is going without a “time budget” and “time audit”.

Step 1: Create a Time Audit:

– Your goal is to deploy your time to outcomes, not inputs or problem solving.

– 4 Tiers of Effectiveness

Step 2: Actively Eliminate Time Wasters

Step 3: Chunk Your Time

The effective executive gets the right results. Their focus is on output and outcomes, not inputs and work flow.

Your lack of weaknesses can’t get anything done, they simply won’t create other problems. Only your strengths can make an impact.

To get strength one has put up with weaknesses- strong people always have strong weaknesses too.

“In every area of effectiveness within an organization, one feeds the opportunities and starves the problems. Nowhere is this more important than in respect to people.” – Peter Drucker

“In Human affairs, the distance between the leaders and the average is a constant. If leadership performance is high, the average will go up.” – Peter Drucker

Effective Executives make the strengths of their boss productive.

The effective executive gets the right results. Their focus is on output and outcomes, not inputs and work flow.

How Effective Executive’s Focus on Opportunities:

-They ensure that problems do not overwhelm opportunities.

- They put their best people on opportunities rather than on problems.

- Problem solving prevents damage, it doesn’t produce results. We become focused on problems and input rather than opportunities and outcomes because it’s easier.

If you’re focused on outcomes you can work hard and still come to the conclusion that you contributed nothing.

Seeing Opportunities:

- Positioning for the future.

- Seeing gaps in what is delivered today.

- Knowing what improvements to make to maximize impact.

How to wrap up the year.

More important than goals is clarifying lessons and setting intentions.

How to do it: 3 Key Questions

What was a win?

What did I learn?

– What’d you learn about yourself?

– What wisdom did you gain?

What will I do different?

– Identity and intention are far more important than goals.

You can take 2 hours, or you could take 10 minutes, but do something.