Thought provoking
It's a common misconception that burnouts come from hard work. Burnout comes from a felt loss of control and/or impact. Remember that you can burn out employees (or yourself) with little to no work.
Andreas Klinger • Managing people
Complex, meaningful ideas are not linear; they’re networks, fractals, and systems.
Tara McMullin • Honeydew — what works
To force them to be otherwise is to reduce their meaningfullness.
Your mind is programmable. If you’re not programming it, then someone else will program it for you
But part of getting to know yourself is to unknow yourself—to let go of the limiting stories you’ve told yourself about who you are so that you aren’t trapped by them, so you can live your life and not the story you’ve been telling yourself about your life.
Lori Gottlieb • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
A pretty radical shift occurs when we stop thinking about the shoulds and supposed-tos of running a business and start thinking about what we want to enable for our customers or clients. There's a significant difference between ensuring I have the right policies in place and enabling client independence, confidence, and creativity.
Tara McMullin • How to Leverage Enabling Structures to Fulfill Values — what works
Considering what outcomes or affects to enable through the structure of the work.
Opening Team Black Boxes: The Weekly Check-In and Check-Out Practice
Charlie Gilkeyproductiveflourishing.com
Personal growth is the process of learning to lie to ourselves less.
What can we let go of to make room for what we need to move forward?
Steve Arensberg • What Can We Let Go Of? (Productive Flourishing Pulse #496)
Change requires loss… to make intentional change requires choosing what to let go of. (before the choice gets made for us)