Context


Giving your team context is important.
The brain desires certainty.
Context builds clarity, which is an antidote to the mind’s certainty cravings.


Too much context, though, is not useful.
This is the challenging balance that leaders must strike continuously.
Too little and your team panics; too much and your team becomes mired amidst the hairball.


Sometimes a thing simply is.
Why and how it got there is less important than what can be done to move it forward.
Your job is to add enough context to instigate the pivot from stuck to moving.



Accio Espresso,
- Morning Cup