Are you interested in being an effective and powerful leader? Are you interested in making a difference for those around you and for your organization? Then you have develop a skill set of moving through circumstances and events quickly. Here's how.
The first part of this is to develop the muscle of rooting yourself in reality. Read this now:
Remove the human tendency to add story and meaning to circumstances and events. Work on seeing your opinions and lenses of of these things as just that; opinions and lenses. When you can get good at taking things just as they are, you are ready for the second part.
The second part involves living in commitment and not attachment. This is the art of holding onto your values, creating actions behind them but not concerning yourself with the outcomes. Organizationally this looks like recognizing something you believe could make the org better and delivering it to the appropriate people, and not being attached to how it may end up, or that it may not even ever end up.
The third part is understanding the power in just knowing and accepting what's so. A new policy, and new directive, a new dress code; the list is endless. Consider these things the rule book to your organization. Growing up playing sports, you would never complain that a missed field field goal netted zero points. So why would you do this at work. The rules are the rules. Know them. Live them. Breath them. DON'T resist them. Because with this comes the real power...
The playbook! The more you understand the rulebook, the more breadth and depth your playbook will have. Knowing the rules allows you to figure out how to make better plays that work for you, your team, and your organization.
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