“When you come to a fork in the road, take it” – Yogi Berra
Life is a lot like the television show, “Let’s Make a Deal.”
Life forces us to make choices. We can trade the benefits of one thing for the greater benefits of another.
The wise leader knows when to trade one thing for another.
We’d like to think that all of our trade-offs are trade-ups, but reality says otherwise.
Sometimes our choices are between “the lesser of two evils” as the saying goes.
We’d like to have a flea less dog or a hairball free cat. There is no such thing. Imperfection is a part of life. As one of my friends used to say, “The fleas come with the dog. If you want the dog, you’re going have to figure out how to deal with the fleas.”
That’s good life advice, too. With our choices come consequences. As leaders we have choices in how we use the resources we’ve been given: personnel, budget allocation, and time management. We can’t hire everyone we’d like to or spend money on everything or be everywhere all the time.
Here are a few choices we’re faced with:
- Superficial abundance or deep little
- Comfortable familiarity or uncomfortable unknown
- Laser-like focus or scattered distraction
- Demanding excellence or low effort average
What choices are facing you this week?
What consequences are you willing to accept?
“While we don’t always get what we want, we always get what we choose.” – John Maxwell in The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth
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