Author: Morten Hanson

7 Habits

• Explain 66% of variation in performance

1. Do less, then obsess
   • More task ≠ more accomplishment and better performance
   • Focus is half the equation, obsession is the other half
   • Multitasking requires extra coordination and task switching effort
   • Obsession can be a productive force
   • Tip: Devise tactics ahead of time to resist temptations
2. Redesign your work
   • Working longer hours enhances performance to a point before dropping
   • Redesign is about outside-in view of value → Value others are benefiting from
   • 5 ways
     1. Reduce low value activities
     2. Increase high value activities
     3. Find new high value activities
     4. Improve Quality
     5. Increase efficiency
3. Don't just learn, loop
   • Aim for deliberate practice
     • Use actual work as learning opportunities (not isolated practice)
     • More frequent,shorter practice
     • Informal, rapid feedback
   • Learning loop
     • [Do → Measure → Feedback → Modify] ~ Repeat
   • Tactics
     • 15 minutes only
     • Chunking
     • Measure "soft" behaviours - KPI
     • Get fast feedback
     • Dig the dip
     • Confront the stall point
4. Passion and Purpose
   • Key is to match passion and purpose - what you can do and what you can contribute
   • Together, provides you more energy to channel into work → More energy per hour of work
   • Passion: Joy of task, enjoying success, creative energy, enthusiasm from others, enjoy learning
   • Purpose: new role, reframe meaning
5. Forceful Champions
   • 3 Key Areas
     1. Advocacy
     2. Teamwork
     3. Collaboration
   • Appeal to both rational and emotional
   • Skills
     • Inspired others
     • Grit and perseverance
6. Fight and Unite
   • Team's work depends highly on how well people debate issues and how full they commit to decisions
   • Constructive conflict
     • Seek diversity
     • Come prepared
     • Get everyone to speak
   • Fostering unity
     • Disagree and commit
7. The Two Sins of Collaboration
   • Disciplined collaboration
     1. Ask why collaborate?
     2. Craft unifying goal that excites and lifts over selfish agendas
     3. Reward for collaboration results, not activities
     4. Devote full resources to collab else scale back
     5. Tailor trust boosters

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