High Performance Leadership

  Looking for signs of life? Seeking better workers? Building a better team? The creative impulse is the purest sign of life. Your team members are showing you how they like to create -- are you paying attention? -- doug smith

  If you have a degree in the arts, no matter how business-like you try to act, a little art has to sneak in. It's stealth-like like that. What if the way we lead a project is the way we live our life? Charts, data, measures, details...or big picture vision and boundless interpersonal energy? It's not actually a choice of one or  the other -- but if you do enough projects, it will touch your life -- and if you live enough life, it will light up your projects. What do you think? -- doug smith

  What would it sound like if you had a conversation with yourself about procrastination? That would depend of course on whether or not you ever got the conversation started. Some of us (*looks sheepishly aside*) would rather NOT have that conversation.  When something makes me uncomfortable, I might make a joke about it. Not as often as I once did, because I've discovered that joking about something doesn't make it go away. Sort of like procrastinating.  "Are you kidding?" "Not kidding." "We've been trying to talk about this for weeks.: "That's you." "What about you?" "I haven't been trying to talk about it..." "There you go again..." "And so it goes..." I don't like to hear about my procrastination. Could we please talk about that some other time?" -- doug smith

  I'm not perfect yet, how about you? There are so many imperfections in my game that sometimes it feels completely impossible. It's not impossible. It's tough because the trip is meaningful. If it didn't feel tough it would be a warning sign. Perfection is a direction, not a destination.  We're are not going to get there, but do need to keep moving. -- doug smith