Juggling

The question isn’t “how many plates can I juggle”? Rather, the the question one should be asking is “how many jugglers can I lead?”.

Perpetual Accelerating Velocity

Teams require stability, cohesion, feedback, retrospection and improvement.

Let the team form. Make it stable. Don't pull from or add to. Let it sit and gel.

Let it self regulate. Let it eject high maintenance high performers, lone wolves, and other forms of detractors. Empower it to self regulate.

Give the team a feedback loop and let it self improve. Measure performance towards what matters by the average of its members. Let the team use the data to find it's optimum size and resulting output for the task at hand. 

Let it self reflect and evolve. Let is use the reflection to define continuous improvement and never short that investment.

The goal being not perpetual motion, but rather self generating accelerating velocity. Impossible for the individual to achieve, but doable, albeit extremely rare and difficult, for a group of individuals to achieve - a team.

Grace

If disturbed success depends on how quickly we return to form. Absolute success is never leaving form. Never reacting to any disturbing situation such that it knocks us off form. Continuous grace in all situations. That is a worthy goal for every waking day.

Impress yourself, no one else.

A Curious Agenda

Every encounter, absolutely every encounter, is an opportunity to learn something you didn't know, if you come prepared to find it.

If you park you story, your talk, your preconceived notions, and your ego, and come genuinely curious to every dialogue you will leave all the richer no matter what the outcome.