Trent Grable

Fan of Functional Leaders | Recovering Analytics Professor | Lives in a Corn Field

[Trent Grable @trentgrable]

@500YearFamily Family institutional knowledge management or skill development in family councils/businesses -> facilitating that wealth creator in every generation.

Appreciate it.

[Trent Grable @trentgrable]

I find the ability to navigate unpleasant situations well is more useful than the ability to avoid them.

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@arvindhsundar Rolling into zoom meetings with wild hair is just brand development, my man.

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Every day is an opportunity to derisk a potential solution.

Even if you can't yet solve your problem, you can at least better understand it.

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Adding a call to action at the end of a meeting doesn't automatically make the meeting worth anyone's time.

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I used to think teamwork was the hard part. Now I know that becoming a person worth being on your team is the hard part.

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Been thinking "what is the cost" is a weaker question than "is the cost too great."

The latter helps to measure what really matters. The former just sets the stage.

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What you build without foundation does not last.

True for more than just houses.

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The best result of an idea is an artifact. Something you can see, feel, assess, break, share, and point back to.

Otherwise, it just remains an idea. And that's not worth much.

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You don't have to build to sell.

Sure, build to sell
or

Build to learn
Build to share
Build to forget
Build to change
Build to explore
Build to express
Build to overcome
Build to remember

You are the builder - you choose your purpose.

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Many leaders I have worked with thought being tenacious and uncompromising was sufficient to lead.

It got things done, sure, but seldom did it provide long-term growth. It mostly promoted resentment and disloyalty from people who got run over.

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I have only two hands. I can hold on tightly to only two things at a time before it becomes a balancing act.

It's not the reaching for new heights that concerns me. It's letting go of what I have in my grasp already, in hopes that I can take hold of what is next, and better.

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I think what you try to get out of doing is just as informative as knowing what you are trying to do.

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People stink at multitasking.

Folks know this. And they know when you are not present with them. Distracted by phones, whatever.

I think that we have just decided collectively to be okay with being only partially present with others.

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One of the differences I've seen between healthy and unhealthy teams

Healthy - members want to know how they best contribute to success

Unhealthy - members feel the need to share every time someone else is not successful

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Focus is such a powerful state because it forces you to optimize for one outcome.

There may be lots of data, variables, and descriptions floating about, but there is only one measure of success at that moment.

In a 7-second world, it's deliberate presence.

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Risk isn't just about uncertain dangers in the future.

It's also about the present dangers that we tolerate right now.

And the potential flourishing we forgo by holding onto the danger we know.

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Innovation and creativity are wasteful, so they do not thrive in rigid outcome expectations.

If your goal is to explore and experiment, focus on getting your processes and systems right - prescribing outcomes ruin the experiment.

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Time is your most important investment; invest it wisely.

Also, time has no shelf life; invest it in something.

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Knowing that outsourcing or hiring will help you scale your organizational impact is easy.

Actually delegating core functions in ways that maintain efficiency is much harder.