How HOW Becomes WOW!
If you think that this blog is about solving problems by exploring the concept of “leverage” you’re right on! It’s about turning a “how” question that keeps you up at night, into the “WOW” that is buried somewhere within digging distance. Did the “H” words in the Idea Du Jour spark the turning point for you?
This week’s personal wake-up call came as an email, one of those pseudo chain letters which these days is called a meme. I loved it! It got me thinking, and turned a “how” into a “WOW” by challenging my traditional approach to goal setting.
Ready? Here's the instructions...time required about 3 minutes.
1. Take the book closest to you, and turn to page 123.
2. Count down 4 sentences.
3. Copy the next 5 sentences and post.
4. Add a comment about any insights/inspirations you may have had as a result. Just click on the comments button below to send.
Here’s an example, from “The Seven Strategies of Master Negotiators”, by Dr. Brad McRae, a colleague from Halifax.
“Equally important (to Buzz) is the need to balance toughness with being pragmatic as the following excerpt from his book Labour of Love points out.”
“Some of my critics like to call me “the labour boss who rattles boardrooms” – as if my only intention is to be stubborn and force a strike on management. That’s absurd. I’m better known in labour-management circles as a person who knows how to reach a settlement by reading the situation and moving demands around on the table until the deal begins to look too sweet for the employers to pass up. Our goal is to always get a deal our members can be happy with.”
Comment: The How = How do you balance toughness with pragmaticism? How does he read the situation? How does he move demands around on the table? How does the deal begin to look too sweet? How do we know what makes our members happy?
The WOW for goal setting: it’s the thinking and the conversations about the various dimensions of the How. If X is what you want, then what’s the continuum of “now, near and far” that gets you there?
Post YOUR page 123 here by clicking comment below. You can also subscribe and receive the updates every Tuesday....email on top right!
If you think that this blog is about solving problems by exploring the concept of “leverage” you’re right on! It’s about turning a “how” question that keeps you up at night, into the “WOW” that is buried somewhere within digging distance. Did the “H” words in the Idea Du Jour spark the turning point for you?
This week’s personal wake-up call came as an email, one of those pseudo chain letters which these days is called a meme. I loved it! It got me thinking, and turned a “how” into a “WOW” by challenging my traditional approach to goal setting.
Ready? Here's the instructions...time required about 3 minutes.
1. Take the book closest to you, and turn to page 123.
2. Count down 4 sentences.
3. Copy the next 5 sentences and post.
4. Add a comment about any insights/inspirations you may have had as a result. Just click on the comments button below to send.
Here’s an example, from “The Seven Strategies of Master Negotiators”, by Dr. Brad McRae, a colleague from Halifax.
“Equally important (to Buzz) is the need to balance toughness with being pragmatic as the following excerpt from his book Labour of Love points out.”
“Some of my critics like to call me “the labour boss who rattles boardrooms” – as if my only intention is to be stubborn and force a strike on management. That’s absurd. I’m better known in labour-management circles as a person who knows how to reach a settlement by reading the situation and moving demands around on the table until the deal begins to look too sweet for the employers to pass up. Our goal is to always get a deal our members can be happy with.”
Comment: The How = How do you balance toughness with pragmaticism? How does he read the situation? How does he move demands around on the table? How does the deal begin to look too sweet? How do we know what makes our members happy?
The WOW for goal setting: it’s the thinking and the conversations about the various dimensions of the How. If X is what you want, then what’s the continuum of “now, near and far” that gets you there?
Post YOUR page 123 here by clicking comment below. You can also subscribe and receive the updates every Tuesday....email on top right!
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See you next Leverage Tuesday, for the letter I!
- Maggie
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