Elliott Wood

Founder / Journey Navigator at Strategic Matter, Co-Founder / CEO at Orderly Meetings.

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New https://t.co/1VlkZf9W86 site is live. And yes, built from scratch with AI, hosted on Azure. I'll never go back to a content management system.

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@jack @blocks "I'd rather replace you with a robot awkwardly and humanly instead of efficiently and cold" Sure. Ok.

Let's be real. You're not going to lower prices, or serve customers better. You're getting rid of humans, in one big public announcement.

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A quick acronym for this model is "CAR"
- Clarity
- Autonomy
- Results

Assuming the delegate has the competence to do the work, let them drive the CAR.

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I often complained about the "boomerang" of delegated tasks that came back to my "to do" list.

Truth is, that was more often my fault than that of the delegate.

I'd not learned how to delegate with clarity.

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- Provide clarity on how much leeway they have to make decisions on how they'll solve it. Time constraints, costs, etc. This provides autonomy to do the work without checking in for every step.

- Define the results that indicate whether the job is done, and done right.

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- Don't meddle - just like opening the cooker actually slows the process and throws your main lead measures off, if you're meddling and micro-managing, you're probably throwing things off track.

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It's been a while since I cooked turkeys. They sure do get pretty.

There are 2 lead measures and a lag measure that matter:

Lead - temp and time.

Don't open the cooker any more than you must. If you're looking you're not cooking.

Lag - No leftovers!

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Fun lesson regarding managing things:

- Pick a couple of measures that let you know you're on track.

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In what room can you share your deepest fears, your highest hopes, your personal, spiritual, and vocational stuff and not-just complain?

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My coach fired me.

He was nice about it. But unwilling to waste my money and his time to keep meeting.

I was stuck. Not ready to make the big change I needed to make and trying to make small iterations, in place.

I was delaying a necessary ending.

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What changes are you putting off because you keep listening to the lie in the back of your head that says "you're not enough?"

Who do you have that will be honest with you - enough to set their own boundary - when you're not ready to take the step you know you need to take?

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Drop it in the comments—I'd love to hear what you're watching for.

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I’ve always liked the idea of fly fishing.

The slow rhythm of the cast. The water bubbling over rocks. The excuse to nerd out over which fly might actually work today. And mostly—the chance to spend a few hours in real conversation with one or two people.

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We don’t need more data for the sake of data. We need the kind of indicators that help us know when to act.

So here’s my question:
What’s your favorite “bobber” in your work?

A signal that helps you know when it’s time to move?