{"id":2015,"date":"2014-07-06T16:45:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T20:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2014-07-06T16:48:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T20:48:17","slug":"three-minute-leadership-improve-or-create","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2014\/07\/three-minute-leadership-improve-or-create\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership: Improve or Create"},"content":{"rendered":"
To:\u00a0 The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Peter Drucker wrote:\u00a0 \u201cTime is the scarcest resource;\u00a0 and unless it is manage, nothing else can be managed.\u201d\u00a0 Since it is the leader\u2019s scarcest resource, this means that there will be choices, critical and surgical, on how best to continuously add value in its use.\u00a0 In his blog,\u00a0<\/span>Making a Straighter Ruler<\/i><\/span>, Seth Godin gives us an insights that helps simplify the leader\u2019s decision-making process:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Making a Straighter Ruler<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It’s not easy. It’s hard to get straighter than straight.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Over time, processes that seek to decrease entropy and create order are valued, but improving them gets more difficult as well. If you’re seeking to make the organized more organized, it’s a tough row to hoe.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Far easier and more productive to create productive chaos, to interrupt, re-create, produce, invent and redefine.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Don\u2019t you just love the excitement of the words: \u201cproductive chaos, interrupt, re-create, produce, invent and redefine.\u201d It is no longer just about them.\u00a0 It is about new, challenging and incredible possibilities.\u00a0 There is a place for continuous improvement in our professional and business life. Yet great leaders looks that which great value \u2013 the greater value of seeing life\u2019s and their potential \u2013 reaching out to explore and realize something they did not believe possible.\u00a0 That is the fun and excitement of each day and each opportunity. On your incredible journey remember the words of Michael Altshuler, author: \u201cThe bad news is time flies.\u00a0 The good news is you\u2019re the pilot.\u201d\u00a0 Enjoy your magnificent flight to being more than you ever dreamed you could be.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Have a beautiful day, a magnificent week and one heck of a summer!!!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Mike<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To:\u00a0 The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning \u00a0 Peter Drucker wrote:\u00a0 \u201cTime is the scarcest resource;\u00a0 and unless it is manage, nothing else can be managed.\u201d\u00a0… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-three-minute-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}