Chapter 6. WATER GAUGE

"In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but analysis and planning are indispensable."

GENERAL DWIGHT D EISENHOWER (1890–1969)

Remember when you were a kid and you would ask your parents to measure your height every few weeks and then keep a record of it by making a mark on the wall? The mark let you know how much you had grown and how fast you were progressing.

This is good training for a skill that all leaders need to develop: keeping a visible measure of progress.

This is obvious stuff, I know, but just consider how you currently analyse and keep score of your progress and whether or not it includes some of the following lessons.

Small details = big answers

Too often when we set off towards our destination ...

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