Reprinted from Mike Morrison’s fantastic email newsletter (November 4, 2009).
The path toward mastery is not only critical to achieving a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment in our lives — it is essential to creating meaningful change as a leader.
We tend to think of the process of achieving mastery in terms of a “huge”…
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”
I’ve experienced this firsthand, as likely have you. How many times have we seen a “great idea” for our organization get buried… somehow, mysteriously, and at the end reflect back on the process only to realize we have no idea how exactly it died?
Short answer: the culture killed it.
It seems like the right thing is to focus more time on making our weaknesses better. After all, this is what we are taught our whole lives in school–if I suck at math, I spend the most time working on that subject.
But we are wrong. Focusing on our weaknesses is usually completely futile.
Let’s…