Month: January 2019

I don’t know wether it was his art or the description of it that captivated my mind! In a Picasso museum tour, the guide kept repeating that he focused on the “lines that matter”. This statement stuck to my mind and became part of my lingo!

I have a natural tendency to take deep dives in details and this trapped my productivity for so long until a book and quite a few failures shaped my thoughts. I kept my emotional interface but my pragmatic reality strongly emerged!

What are the lines that matter is the question i ask when i am lost in a challenge. I obsess on finding the small action lines that will produce the needed impact…I became really good in defining these lines! { but i mostly fail to maintain focus on them! }

I admit, I am scared i will never be a Picasso…
#FocusIsNowMyrealChallenge!

Last week i was in an institution retreat managed by an outside moderator ( which is the best for an effective discussion btw ) and he mentioned a very interesting legal excerpt at the start of the discussion.

Under state statutory and common law, officers and board members are fiduciaries and must act in accordance with the fiduciary duties of care, loyalty, and obedience.

Care. Loyalty. Obedience! These three duties that this moderator identified as fiduciary ( complex word for obliged ) gave me the framework to diagnose a lot of boards that i am part of. I can easily say that obedience is the hardest – because at this level, people around the table have their ego, opinions ( and personal interests )… Sometimes accepting the bigger picture result than can be against their own personal opinion or interest requires clarity of mind and maturity of practice and leadership.

In some writeups online – the definition of obedience refer to a legal compliance but within the context of our discussion around effective boards it also referred to conflict resolution and executing after a board conclusion.

I loved the mental framework that these three elements gave me for effective board! From my experience, they really sum up needed board members duties.

Yeah, I got hit in a situation and I was in deep shit with a perfectly valid excuse! It is not my fault and it is true…But somehow situation repeats itself and i find myself again with the same excuse.

One thing i like about accumulating more years (a.k.a getting old) is just observing my realities with conscious eyes and being able to laugh at myself when i get caught with same set of excuses again and again; so i created a tag line for this year, excuses have an expiry date!

Not only that, i am gonna list any excuse that i repeated to myself more than three times and write beside it #Expired :)) { yeah i believe in the rule of three}

Welcome 2019, I am gonna expire old excuses, so bring it ! i promise if it is not success, it is gonna be a whole new set of excuses because i will do things differently this time:)))