three is my lucky number and three items are easy to remember here are some rubrics for leadership
Stories are the best invention to deliver mental models that drive behavior, how we make meaning of life. Simple structure to stories: (1)character has a problem, then (2) meets a guide who gives them a plan and (3) calls them to action.
In a crisis: Assess, Adjust, Act (Based on 80% of the information available are you 80% sure this is the right decision? … do it and learn, if you never act you’ll never learn)
Look, Listen, Speak
In conversation and in engaging your team: when something sparks your interest ask the person to go deeper 3x (tell me more, why did that occur) and you’ll get closer to the insight
lastly… lets move to executing your plans (credit: FranklinCovey)
The Three Disciplines of Execution
1. Focus on the Important: Focus on the one or two goals that will make all the difference. Focus your best efforts on the one or two goals that would make all the difference, instead of giving mediocre effort to dozens of goals. Leaders must learn how to create energy around the most important projects,
not just fire-fighting.
2. Act on the Lead Measures in yiyr scoreboard : these are critical measures that will tell you if you’re likely to achieve the goal. Get ahead of the results identify what things can be influenced by the team and are predictive of a positive outcome. Lagging measures tell you if you’ve achieved the goal. Help your team know the accurate score at all time. Enable everyone to tell whether or not they’re winning in as easy (pictorial) was as possible.
3. Create a Cadence of Accountability: Meet weekly to report on commitments and review the scoreboard. This is where the execution happens. Your team should meet weekly for 20–30 minutes to report on commitments and review the scoreboard. Where Disciplines 1, and 2 set up the game, but until you set up Discipline 3 your team isn’t in the game.