You’ve given me great feedback this year in the form of likes, comments, texts and emails. When I reviewed the feedback on all 52 articles I’ve written, a crisp, larger picture emerged.
The TLDR is (as we expected), that it took a massive amount of energy to complete our missions this year. In fact, it took all you had to offer and then some.
It’s what I call a sacrificial effort.
How do I know this?
Articles that talked about how to get back on the right side of personal, team and enterprise leverage were far and away your favorites this year.
You were very much seeking to find that point where your efforts were multiplied again…multiplied and rewarded with scale, a sense of accomplishment and regaining agency in your life.
Your Top 6 Articles of 2021
Here are the six pieces that you pushed to the top of the list along with a short summary:
- Defines sacrificial effort, hopeful work, linear growth and geometric growth
- Clarifies that as client expectations went up, team productivity stayed flat leading to resignations
- Discusses how to get in front of this by building truly effective team efforts
- Defines strong strategy as a path that builds & multiplies human margin and agency
- Clarifies that it is very hard to “self edit” to make the decisions to get alignment & prioritization
- Discusses two starting points for this journey
- Defines two eras: pre-COVID and our current situation
- Clarifies that the intersection of value and insight helps to “North Star” your strategy
- Discusses the most common ditch of low risk/reward projects – and how to avoid it
- Defines a unique rating scale for top talent soft skills
- Clarifies that the right mix of leadership styles on teams is as important as “star” power
- Discusses how to use it to free the “stuck” team
- Defines the real competitor to your growth plans (demands from the existing business)
- Clarifies that acceleration is pivotal to create value with growth projects
- Discusses that lack of acceleration is usually tied to hard and unmade decisions
- Defines self-induced turbulence as a real threat to installing fresh strategy successfully
- Clarifies how holding things on course allows the real challenges to become visible
- Defines the “delay” between input and results as the real area for focus
It’s been a great year and the journey for ‘22 is coming into focus. We’ve locked in the plan before us, and as always, we know that the actual path will take diagnosis, skill and adaptability.
I look forward to continuing and shaping the conversation.
If you’d like to explore what it is like to have a right-hand advisor for your mission in ‘22, please tee up a call using this link.
Well, it’s nearly a wrap – 52 articles done and dusted. A hearty thank you to the team that makes it possible and (of course) to you, the reader, for your engagement.
Stay tuned for some changes to our communication streams this next year…we are listening to how you like to consume content.
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