If you've worked with me, you already know I always say that:
We don't learn from experience(s), but from the moments when we stop and reflect on what we have experienced. This is why I will be producing a series of articles and so you can help achieve your plans.
I propose to challenge you and twist the knife in the wound from time to time. In order to heal, the wound must be cleaned, and that includes bleeding.
First twist and first reflection that I propose is the following:
The more you know, the less you see.
If you're experienced at what you do, or especially if you're a company veteran, you'll probably think like everyone else that you know everything there is to know about your field and your business. That's probably true, I don't dispute that.
What I challenge you to ask yourself is
When was the last time you stopped to ask yourself if you could do what you do better and more efficiently?
You almost certainly haven't stopped in a long time. I see this with most of the managers I work with, and I work with many. They get so caught up in what they do that just the thought of them having something more to learn or streamline bothers them. Worse, by being successful doing the same steps over and over, they come to believe with conviction that everything is perfect and that no one extra (or less) is needed.
I hope you're not like them.
We can't see in ourselves the things that those outside our area see - outside our team, outside our family, outside us as beings. We become attached to who we are, what we have achieved, what we think of ourselves and we struggle to hold on to what we have built up to x moment.
The signal that has already passed the moment when you should have stopped looking for new ways is repeating situations that bother you. They've been around for a long time in your life, to be sure, but now you've come to notice them because now they bother you enough. At this point, you'll definitely want it to not take forever to identify what's not working and especially what the pattern is that you're using, but you're not even aware of it anymore precisely because you've been using it for so long. Is that right?
The conclusion of this Monday's reflection - let yourself be supported. BUT BEWARE - not by someone in your field. He'll see the same things as you, he'll walk the same paths as you, with slight variations, precisely because, knowing the field, he also knows the problems, he knows what he's tried so far and... the more you know, the less you see. He has the same horizon as you.
Let yourself be supported by someone who is not attached to your field and who looks at the situation you want to solve from a different perspective. Test. I won't go into more detail.
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