{"id":3064,"date":"2019-01-21T13:36:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T18:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2019-01-21T13:36:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T18:36:22","slug":"three-minute-leadership-small-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2019\/01\/three-minute-leadership-small-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership: Small Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Legendary coach,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Wooden\">John Wooden<\/a>, wrote: \u201c<em>When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur\u2026. Don\u2019t look for the quick, big improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That\u2019s the only way it happens \u2013 and when it happens, it lasts.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to its beauty, joy and excitement, the great leader\u2019s life journey is filled with a continuing stream of opportunities, challenges and, sometimes, seemingly impossible obstacles and problems. It is the treasure of their \u201csmall win\u201d mindset that enables them to successfully address these \u00a0growth and change opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karl_E._Weick\">Karl Weik<\/a>, in his paper,\u00a0<em>Small Wins, Redefining the Scale of Social Problems<\/em>, writes: \u201c<em>A small win reduces importance (\u2018this is no big deal\u2019), reduces demands (\u2018that\u2019s all that needs to be done\u2019), and raises perceived skill levels (\u2018I can do at least that\u2019).\u201d<\/em>\u00a0This mindset that creates confidence by minimizing the perceived magnitude of a situation and, in its achievement, builds in the great leaders further belief in their own abilities and potential.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>May you celebrate joyfully each of your \u201csmall step\u201d achievements remembering always the words of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_David_Thoreau\">Henry Thoreau<\/a>: \u201c<em>What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals<\/em>.\u201d Become more than you ever dreamed you could be\u2026 and more\u2026 so much more. Life is so very good.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Have a beautiful day and a magnificent week!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mike<\/p>\n<p>____________<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2476\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE.jpg 188w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE-88x88.jpg 88w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning &nbsp; Legendary coach,\u00a0John Wooden, wrote: \u201cWhen you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur\u2026. Don\u2019t look for&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4049,"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-3064","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\/3064","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\/4049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3065,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions\/3065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}