High Performance Leadership

There's no reason to believe in false choices. There are always more choices. If you can't find them, create them. High performance leaders are creatives so create the best choices for you.  -- doug smith

Do you know anyone who makes everything more dramatic than it needs to be? The argument, the debate, the decision, the disappointment -- all become episodes of an opera-ish act. It wears us down all designed to get the drama-demon what they want. Or is it? Could it also be an uncovered need? Could it also be a cry for help that is clumsy yet genuine? How can we know? How can a leader ever know? We can stay curious. We can question with the idea of learning, of opening up possibilities, of staying genuinely curious as if we don't know the answer -- because we probably don't. Drama is a choice among many possibilities. Our response is also a choice. -- doug smith

Do your limitations ever bother you? I don't like my limitations. In a perfect world everything would be possible and nothing would hold us back. We just don't live in that perfect world yet. Every team, every project, every goal has its own constraints. There are things that hold us back. But within those constraints we have many choices. We always have available creative possibilities. Looking for those possibilities is half the fun. Find those choices keeps us focused and working toward our goals. Centered leaders see choices in every constraint. Are you uncovering your choices? -- Doug Smith Front Range Leadership:  Training Supervisors for Success doug smith training:  how to achieve your project goals