Object vs. Process
Two quick housekeeping items:
- Schedule Change: Due to a need of our great Client, Mainstay Technologies, we have moved our Bedford, NH LEADERSHIP Essentials Academy to September 11-12. Join us there or come out to the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area on August 7-8 or October 2-3 for our hometown Academy.
- # Merged: You may notice the jump in this newsletter's number to #348. This is because I merged the numbering of my email accountability and leadership suggestions. This would have been #133 of LEADERSHIP Accountability and there have been 215 of my Work Smart Live Well ideas. I will continue to focus each newsletter differently, but the dual numbering was confusing to some people.
Is leadership an object? Well, this is worth a pause for consideration as we start this week. Dictionary.com gives us five definitions of an object:
- Anything that is visible or tangible, and relatively stable in form.
- A thing, person or matter to which thought or action is directed: an object of a medical examination.
- The end toward which effort or action is directed; goal; purpose: Profit is the object of the business.
- A person or thing with reference to the impression made on the mind or the feeling or emotion elicited in an observer: an object of curiosity and pity.
- Anything that may be apprehended intellectually: objects of thought.
What do you think?
I suggest that although some attributes of leadership may be objects, the power of leadership resides in systematic processes involving meaningful work and constantly reinforcing relationships.
An object can be something without life or a moment in time, whereas leadership is alive in constant movement in ever developing best practices and processes.
The question: What is one part of your leadership responsibilities where you are stuck as an "object," and what is the process needed to achieve a breakthrough?
It is Monday. ACCOUNTABILITY TIME!
- Did you take Sanctuary time over the weekend to improve your focus?
- How did you do on your 3Strands last week?
- Have you defined your 3Strands for this week?
By 9:00 a.m. this morning you should have 3Strands emails from each of your direct reports. Stay on track.
