The Off-Season Plan

Personal growth ultimately comes down to three Rs: Reflection, Re-evaluation and Re-assessment.

 
For any leader, once the season is over it’s always time for reflection, re-evaluation, and reassessment. Once analyzing the “three R’s. the strategy towards improvement becomes clear. By everyone following the plan, the improvement of one comes the improvement of all. If this is true, then why do many teams or organizations take a step backward? Because most of the time, everyone thinks the same. Everyone sees the same problems and their answers become part of an echo chamber, where everyone’s answers are the same. We call this building a consensus, and once the consensus is formed the plan is fully proof. or is it? When solving complex problems, it takes cognizant diversity, which most organizations dont have before assessing the 3 R’s.

This solution towards improvement is not new. In fact, in Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book A Team of Rivals, Lincoln perfected cognizant diversity by hiring people who saw things differently, who were more enemies than friends, and gave him a different perspective than his own. I’m sure Lincoln would have loved to surround himself with others who shared his beliefs. However Lincoln knew the problems of the nation were immense requiring different thoughts and beliefs. He knew teams with cognitive diversity offer more innovation, ideas, which leads to better analysis which then leads to better planning. As Matthew Syed wrote about in his book ‘Rebel Ideas” The Power of Diverse Thinking. “Group wisdom emerges whenever information is dispersed among different minds.”

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