It's Tuesday at 2:00pm! (PST Time: I live and work from Southern California)
Greetings to you!
Each week I send out a short leadership blog that's called "Tuesday at 2:00pm". The purpose of this is simply to provide a brief thought on leadership that you can read and think about in just a few minutes. I send it out every week at 2:00pm (PST) and encourage you to make an appointment with yourself to pause and think about the thing I'm writing about.
Russ...
LEADERSHIP QUOTE:
"There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them." Seth Godin
What does this stir up? Either write me HERE or comment at the end of the blog post HERE.
A LITTLE BIT DEEPER:
It's November, and if you're like me, as we approach the last weeks of the year, you begin to think about what's next. I'm in the middle of budget planning, calendar planning, and project planning, yet the most important aspect of planning is simply asking questions around STRATEGY and what will get us where we want to and need to go. This month, let's look at strategy a little bit and see what we can learn.
We're exploring the concept of STRATEGY but when I saw Godin's quote above, the idea of EXECUTION jumped out at me.
"Strategy is the overarching plan for an organization, while execution is the process of putting that plan into action." Unknown
Last week, I participated in a Barnabas Board Meeting. This is the organization I lead here in Orange County California. At the meeting, we did our normal business, but then we spent some time doing some brainstorming around strategy. Some great ideas circled the room, and as I drove home, I spent time thinking, dreaming, praying, wondering, and processing some of those strategic ideas about where we're wanting to go as an organization and a Community.
The next day, when I woke up, I shifted into the reality of execution. What would it take for one or two of those ideas to actually make it from the brainstorming process into reality? This is Strategic Execution. They go hand in hand.
In your personal leadership, do you lean towards the "STRATEGY" side of thinking, planning, dreaming or do you lean into the "EXECUTION" side of moving into action? Or both?
DEEPER STILL:
Michael Hyatt, a leader I read and follow, wrote a great article on The Leadership Strategy of Jesus. I have it linked below but basically he identifies 5 things Jesus did to pursue his vision and purpose on earth, and within a generation, he changed the world.
Look at these 5 things:
He Led Himself: Leadership starts with self-leadership
He Confided in the Three: Peter, James & John
He Trained the Twelve: He did life with the 12
He Mobilized the Seventy: He challenged a larger group to go
He Taught the Multitudes: He had a public ministry
Read the full article linked below, but this could be defined as Jesus' strategy. This is also the way he executed his strategy and it worked.
The real strategy is focused on the idea of life change and finding purpose and hope, but as people experienced this for themselves, they couldn't keep it to themselves. Neither should we!
Strategy and Execution go hand in hand. We need to THINK strategically, then have the WILL to execute on that strategy.
What do you do to move from Strategy to Execution in your business or organization?
Things I'm Reading, Listening To and Watching This Week:
How to Move from Strategy to Execution. Harbard Business Review
I live in a small town called San Juan Capistrano in Southern California. They just opened this great new outdoor marketplace called River Street Marketplace. It's slowly opening up, but it has a great vibe and some great new stores and restaurants. We love this town!
Check out this new development from Apple with their Air Pods. These things can be used as a hearing aid device now! Pretty interesting!
This week I've been listening to some classic and current Newsboys Hits on their Essentials Album on Apple.