Dawon_n_only

Writer. Thinker. Hood escapee with WiFi and wisdom. Still seasoning my food and breaking cycles. From RI to the Midwest-elevating, but never forgetting. ✊🏾😂

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Galilee is a novel about place, memory, and the things men learn without being taught. Quiet. Restrained. Rooted in New England. Available on Amazon.

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The question after every important metric shouldn't only be: “What happened?” It should also be: “What might this number be unable to see?”

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One of the easiest management mistakes:
1. Metric moves.
2. Leader assumes why.
3. Organization responds.
4. People adapt to the response.
5. Metric improves.
6. Underlying problem remains.

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A metric can be accurate and the conclusion you draw from it can still be wrong. Measurement and judgment are different disciplines.

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A dashboard should tell you where to look. It shouldn't do your thinking for you.

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The most dangerous metric isn't necessarily a bad metric. Sometimes it's a useful metric that becomes the whole story. Numbers can tell us what changed. Judgment is still required to understand why.

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The most dangerous metric isn't necessarily a bad metric. Sometimes it's a useful metric that becomes the whole story. Numbers can tell us what changed. Judgment is still required to understand why.

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One of the hardest decisions for a leader to change is the one they personally fought for. At some point, you're no longer defending the strategy. You're defending your judgment.

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Weddings makes changing your mind expensive. The closer you get, the more deposits, expectations, relationships and reputation become attached to the decision. Beliefs can work the same way-sometimes we're not protecting the idea anymore we’re protecting everything attached to it

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Maybe the goal isn't simply to become more knowledgeable as we age.

It's to become more knowledgeable without becoming more difficult to teach.

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The danger isn't becoming confident in your judgment.

It's becoming so identified with your judgment that contradictory information starts feeling like a personal attack.

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Beginners have the freedom to say, “I don't know.”

Experts sometimes have to recover it.

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One hidden cost of expertise:

Changing your mind becomes more expensive because you're no longer reconsidering only an idea.

You may be reconsidering a reputation you've spent years building.

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Experience can make you better at recognizing patterns.

It can also make you better at defending the patterns you've already decided are true.

Wisdom requires knowing the difference.

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Experience improves pattern recognition. But there's a danger hiding inside that strength: Eventually, we can become so good at recognizing familiar patterns that we stop noticing evidence that the pattern has changed.

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Accountability isn't just accepting responsibility for what happened. It's allowing what happened to change what you believe.

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Work doesn't only reveal competence. It reveals how we handle uncertainty, criticism, authority, failure, ego, responsibility and being wrong. That's why organizations are interesting to me. The business problem is often just the doorway into the human one.

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One of the easiest ways to protect your ego is to rewrite your original decision after reality proves it wrong. “I didn't really mean…” “That wasn't what I expected…” “The execution…” Sometimes the grown-up sentence is simply: I was wrong.

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We spend a lot of time teaching leaders how to make better decisions. Maybe we should spend more time teaching people how to behave after a bad one.

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Confidence says: I have enough information to decide.
Responsibility says: If I'm wrong, I still own what happens next.

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Maturity isn't being right more often. It's becoming more responsible when you're wrong.