I'm Scared Of People With Power Making

When There Is Pain, The Animal Instinct Is 'fight Or Flight' (i.e., To Either Strike Back Or Run Away) - Reflect Instead. When You Can Calm Yourself Down, Thinking About The Dilemma That Is Causing You Pain Will Bring You To A Higher Level And Enlighten You, Leading To Progress.

By And Large, Life Will Give You What You Deserve And It Doesn't Give A Damn What You Like. So It Is Up To You To Take Full Responsibility To Connect What You Want With What You Need To Do To Get It, And Then To Do Those Things.

Imagine If You Had Baseball Cards That Showed All The Performance Stats For Your People: Batting Averages, Home Runs, Errors, Eras, Win/loss Records. You Could See What They Did Well And Poorly And Call On The Right People To Play The Right Positions In A Very Transparent Way.

I've Learned That Each Mistake Was Probably A Reflection Of Something That I Was (or Others Were) Doing Wrong, So If I Could Figure Out What That Was, I Could Learn How To Be More Effective.

Over Time, It Also Became Important For Me To Share My Management Principles With The People I Worked With Because We Had To Agree On How We Should Be With Each Other - And That Way Is Unique. Because The Logic Behind Being Radically Honest And Radically Transparent With Each Other Wasn't Clear, It Had To Be Spelled Out In These Principles.