Mike R. Jay on Leadership

Leadership: Self-Centered or Sacrifice of Self?

This topic begins as I'm writing to a client about the 90-10 rule I use with people/myself.

Here's a typical response after people have been using the "modified Pareto" principle (90-10) for some time:

"I almost didn't do the important things today, so many things came up, X happened, Y called me, Z is in trouble….so I forced myself to do the work"

This is the effortful way to do 90-10--out of each day spend 10% or 144 minutes doing important stuff, not the effortless way I suggest below.

Leadership and "The Con"

This particular musing is set up from a real experience that happened to me in Bogotá, Colombia in 2000. I had been going back and forth to Colombia for some time working and playing with a group of entrepreneurs who were trying to find ways to get Americans to spend more money in Colombia. On my last scheduled visit, my Colombians friends introduced me to Laura. 22 hours later (I did sleep on it!), I asked her to marry me and without a doubt she's been the best companion I've ever had...and some people would say I'm lucky.

Leadership & Procrastination = 90/10?

I think procrastination or avoiding behavior as some call it is actually an emergent property of another motivation.

In other words, it’s not like you are trying to avoid something or procrastinate intentionally.

Some people would call it procrastination, or avoidance, and it could be.

However in my view, it’s none of those but a person being drawn away from the rote routine or detail; having to do types of things that are less interesting and much less motivating.

Leadership: Optimism On the Other Side of Pessimism

This topic came to me today while I was interviewing Dr. Otto Laske for the CPR Design Marathon. If you haven't joined in those free calls yet, you can do so by registering for our CPR Update at http://www.cprforthesoul.com/countdown .

One of the most difficult things for leadership to realize as we begin to awaken out of the sleep we have been in over the past 60 years of human development, is that people have a pre-wired capacity, capability and potential.