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Chris Fussell
American
Author
Faster
Organization
Time
Will
You
Your
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As a leader, you must consistently drive effective communication. Meetings must be deliberate and intentional - your organizational rhythm should value purpose over habit and effectiveness over efficiency.
Chris Fussell
You
Communication
Value
Drive
Leader
Meetings
Consistently
Must
Deliberate
Purpose
Habit
Over
Effective
Effectiveness
Efficiency
Intentional
Rhythm
Should
Your
Organizational
There's a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.
Chris Fussell
Doing The Right Thing
Right Thing
Between
Doing
Difference
The Right Thing
Right
Thing
Things
In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.
Chris Fussell
Natural
Become
System
Tendency
Excuse
Bureaucracy
Any
Inaction
Natural Tendency
Before you can trust your team to make decisions better than you would have, you need to build their capability to connect the dots.
Chris Fussell
You
Trust
Better
Build
Before
Would
Make
Than
Decisions
Capability
Dots
Your
Team
Connect
Need
If you're trying to stay productive, stop and think, 'Are my meetings actually productive, or are we merely having meetings for meetings' sake?'
Chris Fussell
You
Think
Meetings
Stay
Having
Merely
Sake
Trying
Stop
Productive
Actually
Silos and bureaucracy are well-oiled machines in corporate America, but they are ultimately perpetuated by individual behavior. If we start behaving differently, we can create change. In other words, shifting your focus onto the team - or the ship as a whole, not just yourself - will have meaningful impact.
Chris Fussell
Change
Yourself
Words
Behavior
Will
Focus
Shifting
Other
Corporate
Corporate America
Machines
Impact
Individual
Onto
Ultimately
Ship
America
Behaving
Bureaucracy
Just
In Other Words
Meaningful
Create
Your
Team
Whole
Differently
Start
The 21st century is dominated by networks because the introduction of the information age, we can suddenly create, free flow these globally distributed, organic, shaped networks of individuals.
Chris Fussell
Age
Free
Organic
Introduction
Distributed
Free Flow
Networks
Shaped
Individuals
Globally
Because
Dominated
Information
Information Age
Century
Create
Suddenly
Flow
As I found while leading special operations forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, if the problem is interconnected, your organization must be, as well.
Chris Fussell
Problem
Organization
Must
Leading
Well
Forces
Operations
Iraq
Afghanistan
Interconnected
While
Your
Special
Found
When the collective mentality of any organization is self and self-preservation first, it's a sure sign of pending doom.
Chris Fussell
Organization
Collective
First
Sign
Mentality
Self
Sure
Sure Sign
Self-Preservation
Any
Doom
Special operations are small, highly specialized. They do amazing work when they're put into the fight, but it's a limited resource. And so if we become overly dependent on an organization that's designed for a very specific mission and expect them to solve all problems around the world, you're naturally going to overextend it.
Chris Fussell
Work
You
Fight
World
Amazing
Problems
Organization
Become
Resource
Solve
Small
Put
Highly
Mission
Operations
Around
Limited
Overly
Very
Expect
Going
Dependent
Them
Naturally
Special
Specialized
Specific
Designed
The reality, as the battlefield taught us, is that a 20th-century organizational system is simply insufficient for the speed of the information age.
Chris Fussell
Age
Reality
Speed
Battlefield
System
Simply
Insufficient
Taught
Information
Information Age
Us
Organizational
It's difficult to feel as though you are truly being effective at work. Many of us feel trapped in endless meetings, with barely any time to grab lunch, let alone do any work. Overarching strategies and key priorities seem completely divorced from the day-to-day tactics.
Chris Fussell
Work
Alone
Time
You
Key
Trapped
Difficult
Lunch
Meetings
Though
Seem
Tactics
Divorced
Day-To-Day
Feel
Priorities
Truly
Effective
Grab
Endless
Any
Being
Us
Barely
Many
Strategies
As the insurgency in Iraq started to grow, we realized this is a connected network of individual actors that can move at light speed.
Chris Fussell
Light
Speed
Network
Individual
Insurgency
Iraq
Move
Realized
Connected
Grow
Actor
Started
How often are you really realigning yourselves on strategy? And does it need to be faster, based on how quickly your market actually changes? The answer is usually yes.
Chris Fussell
You
Strategy
Faster
Changes
Market
Answer
Does
How
Yes
Quickly
Often
Really
Your
Based
Actually
Need
If the most deeply interconnected individuals can exemplify the behaviors that your official top brass sets out, then the rest of the organization will follow suit.
Chris Fussell
Organization
Will
Rest
Sets
Top
Out
Follow
Individuals
Most
Brass
Official
Behaviors
Interconnected
Then
Your
Deeply
Suit
In the military, and in business, the most elite and effective teams I've seen or been part of are filled with individuals who take responsibility for their choices. Life is a series of decisions that you make and actions you take, not a series of things that happen to you.
Chris Fussell
Life
You
Business
Responsibility
Life Is A
Seen
Military
Take
Part
Individuals
Most
Make
Been
Effective
Happen
Decisions
Choices
Who
Actions
Teams
Series
Filled
Things
Elite
There is clearly risk associated with empowering your team to make more and faster decisions at a lowerlevel than was previously the norm. As you take your hands off the wheel, you need to be more vigilant and aware than ever about the decisions your team is making.
Chris Fussell
You
Faster
About
Risk
More
Take
Clearly
Make
Empowering
Making
Norm
Off
Than
Hands
Wheel
Decisions
Your
Team
Vigilant
Aware
Ever
Need
Associated
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