Ashish Kothari argues that leaders waste energy chasing outcomes beyond their control. Instead, anchor to the present and focus on what you can actually influence right now, not the past or an uncertain future.
So, we focus so much when we're thinking about change, right? We're focusing on the outcomes or the end state that we're trying to go to. But the only thing that we can control is ourselves in the present moment. And really anchoring to, okay, what's going on right now? What's possible right now? I see so many leaders and teams focus on the past or the future instead of the present. And when we are focusing on the past, we're rubbing up against something that is is just a place of friction because it's in the everything else we can't control or we can't influence it. And when we're focusing so much on the future, especially when it's hazy, if we don't see what we can control or influence in the moment, we're not going to get to that future or that future is gonna come with more urgency and more reactivity.
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