Posts Tagged ‘ what it depends on ’

There Are No Rules To Politics

By | May 16th, 2019 | Category: Leadership | No Comments

We like rules. Rules make life easier. Knowing that there is a right and wrong answer means that we can figure out how to be successful under all circumstances. The only problem is that life doesn’t actually work that way, particularly when engaging in politics and managing in the face of complexity and uncertainty. That’s not to say that there aren’t strategies that can help, but those strategies inherently require adaptation, a willingness to be flexible, and acceptance that the only right answer in any given situation is, “It depends.”


The More Process You Have, The Less Process You Need

By | November 23rd, 2018 | Category: Organizational Practices | No Comments

Process is important. It provides useful and relevant guidance on how to get things done. And yet process can also be a crutch, particularly when we presume the real world works exactly as the process prescribes. For process to be useful, then, we need to rethink how we relate to process.


We Are Fundamentally Predisposed To Ignore Context

By | April 20th, 2018 | Category: Decision Making | No Comments

Culture is important. And context is everything. And yet, when we make decisions, we very often ignore the things that we should pay attention to the most. Worse, our tendency to do that is hard wired. That doesn’t mean it has to stay that way, though.