Comments on: Setting Goals, and the One Minute Leadership Lesson http://jamieflinchbaugh.com/2010/01/setting-goals-and-the-one-minute-leadership-lesson/ on lean culture, transformational leadership, and entrepreneurial excellence Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:25:37 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Rob http://jamieflinchbaugh.com/2010/01/setting-goals-and-the-one-minute-leadership-lesson/comment-page-1/#comment-304 Rob Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:07:37 +0000 http://jamieflinchbaugh.com/2010/01/setting-goals-and-the-one-minute-leadership-lesson/#comment-304 The key to effective New Years resolutions is: 1. Be focused: focus your energy and enthusiasm on completing one resolution at a time 2. Be organised: plan to complete the easy resolutions first, pick the low hanging fruit; this gives you confidence and boosts your ability to go onto tackle the more difficult resolutions 3. Be flexible: sometimes things won’t go as planned, don't be demodulated 4. Be specific: use SMART goals; create a concrete action plan use proven habit techniques. The key to effective New Years resolutions is:

1. Be focused: focus your energy and enthusiasm on completing one resolution at a time
2. Be organised: plan to complete the easy resolutions first, pick the low hanging fruit; this gives you confidence and boosts your ability to go onto tackle the more difficult resolutions
3. Be flexible: sometimes things won’t go as planned, don’t be demodulated
4. Be specific: use SMART goals; create a concrete action plan use proven habit techniques.

]]> By: Jamie Flinchbaugh http://jamieflinchbaugh.com/2010/01/setting-goals-and-the-one-minute-leadership-lesson/comment-page-1/#comment-301 Jamie Flinchbaugh Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:44:38 +0000 http://jamieflinchbaugh.com/2010/01/setting-goals-and-the-one-minute-leadership-lesson/#comment-301 Thanks Bruce. I agree, we don't give this enough consideration. Little happens if we aren't willing to give up a little, or at least risk a little in the process of change. Thanks Bruce. I agree, we don’t give this enough consideration. Little happens if we aren’t willing to give up a little, or at least risk a little in the process of change.

]]> By: Bruce Baker http://jamieflinchbaugh.com/2010/01/setting-goals-and-the-one-minute-leadership-lesson/comment-page-1/#comment-300 Bruce Baker Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:46:27 +0000 http://jamieflinchbaugh.com/2010/01/setting-goals-and-the-one-minute-leadership-lesson/#comment-300 I like question 2 best (the other ones are good, but #2 hits me). I think I allow myself to take a path of low risk sometimes. That is not my history, I used to be pretty audacious, but I have become more risk averse and I need to change that. Part of the reason is extrinsic. I live (like everybody else does) in a blame culture (see Graban's post on blame (http://www.leanblog.org/2010/01/of-course-an-individual-got-blamed/) and that makes it easy to look for a low risk path. I have to get back to what they taught in the Corps, "Courage is not absence of fear but the ability to accomplish the mission in spite of it." Can't directly control my environment but I can control my own actions. Hey - that's not a moleskine in that picture is it?! I like question 2 best (the other ones are good, but #2 hits me). I think I allow myself to take a path of low risk sometimes. That is not my history, I used to be pretty audacious, but I have become more risk averse and I need to change that. Part of the reason is extrinsic. I live (like everybody else does) in a blame culture (see Graban’s post on blame (http://www.leanblog.org/2010/01/of-course-an-individual-got-blamed/) and that makes it easy to look for a low risk path. I have to get back to what they taught in the Corps, “Courage is not absence of fear but the ability to accomplish the mission in spite of it.” Can’t directly control my environment but I can control my own actions.

Hey – that’s not a moleskine in that picture is it?!

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