Friday, April 16, 2021

Nice "Unimportant" Quotes

“Delegate”: The decisions should be made for the whole team. The remedy is to question why it is urgent and dismantle that. Unfortunately, Urgent/Unimportant tasks are often political.

"Digital Master” is a series of guidebooks (28 + books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.”

It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, provides advice on how to run a digital organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management. It also instructs the digital workforce on how to shape a game-changing digital mindset and build the right set of digital capabilities to compete for the future. Here is a set of “Unimportant” quotes in “Digital Master.”

Einstein also said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge." He's not saying knowledge is unimportant, we absolutely need knowledge. But knowledge is what is and what has been.

Want more effective communication? Build stronger teams and make effective cross-functional communication. For example, if something important needs to be communicated across departmental boundaries, those doing the communicating might "leave out" information they deem trivial or unimportant, when in fact, it is pertinent.

One way to overcome this is to rephrase the question, instead of seeking agreement to the decision, ask if anyone has any reason why this decision should not be made. It has worked to remove the logjam on multiple occasions; then, phase (or time-manage) is using the Important/Urgent decision space, where actions are ‘Do it, Defer (non-urgent), Delegate (unimportant) or Dump.”

“Delegate”: The decisions should be made for the whole team. The remedy is to question why it is urgent and dismantle that. Unfortunately, Urgent/Unimportant tasks are often political.

Although you may reasonably choose to prioritize certain ONR (Objections, Negativity or Resistance) issues over others, be aware people feel particularly peeved when they get the message that what they have to say is irrelevant or unimportant. Ultimately, the management of ONR is a critical component of change management.

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