The Knife
MID-FEBRUARY. Last week, you took the first step toward solving a significant concern, worry, or obstruction in your mind about yourself or your team. The goal was to choose a direction, not a solution. How'd it go? You realize that I'm making these tasks so simple that you could do them in your head every week, right? Not this week.
DO THIS. RIGHT NOW. With this direction in mind, talk to a trusted other. They should likely have no skin in the game on this challenge so that they can remain neutral. The point of this brief exercise is two-fold. One, get the idea out of your head and in front of someone else. Second, the active demonstration to this other human that you value their opinion.
BONUS: Did you learn something from this conversation? Good. Rewrite your direction artifact.
(p.s. If you are feeling behind, re: DO THIS. RIGHT NOW, don't worry, I'm building you something.)
This Week in Rands
This article reads like the circumstances, and the discovery of the lessons occurred at the same time. Incorrect. Most of what I discovered were only discoveries years after the situations. Yes, I built the skills at the time, but the realization of both the ridiculousness of the situations and the value of the lessons came with time.
If you don’t write it down, it never happened.
Leadership Links:
- Why "Storytelling" Is Catching On As a Key Skill for Leadership Hires: https://www.reddit.com/r/Leadership/comments/1quz7if/why_storytelling_is_catching_on_as_a_key_skill/
- Upping Your Communication Game for 2026: https://www.thoughtleadersllc.com/2026/01/upping-your-communication-game-for-2026/
- Call Five People When: https://leadershipfreak.blog/2026/02/06/the-call-five-people-rule/
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