We are geared to seeking feedback on how we're doing (normally positive, which is often the least useful - but that's for another time), but we rarely ask the more useful questions:
What is it that I do?
Am I doing it differently to last year?
Where do you think I'm heading?
What do like about how I do what I do?
If we're committed, we're all en route. Going somewhere, even if we're not sure where. The scenery round us changes, and if we take the time to notice, so does the view. It's difficult to notice when we have our head down, looking at the path.
Right now, the scenery around is changing faster then ever. and if we haven't noticed, we are almost certainly missing opportunities, and probably emerging threats.
One of the frequent challenges of management is that we find out what works for us, and keep doing it, even when the scenery changes.
It's a leader's job to notice, and bring it to people's attention. To make sure she has the right people around her to deal with what's emerging, and…
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