If you were in charge

I asked a friend about his job and what he thinks his department should be doing that they’re not doing.

“If you were in charge ... if you didn’t have to ask permission ... what would you do? What changes would you make? What would enable your department do its best work?”

He mentioned four things.

Here’s what’s remarkable: without needing approval or additional resources, he can already implement three of those four things — including the thing he identified as most important.

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Sometimes we’re capable of making things right ... and we just don’t stop to recognize that capability.

Sometimes our biggest roadblock is ourselves. That we have a mindset of limitation.

Maybe it’s not about “what would you do” ... maybe it’s about what will you do. Because maybe you can.