Messy
Your mind associates high performance with a notion of streamlined efficiency.
A higher performance machine is sleek and precise.
A high performance team is synergistic and synchronized.
An implicit belief is that high performance is clean.
Perfection might be clean; high performance is messy.
While the end results may be tremendous, expecting a smooth, clean process in getting there sets you and your team up for failure.
A state of flow does not mean you hit all the marks at the perfect time and sequence.
A state of flow is your brain’s ability to continue adapting and performing despite variability in the conditions.
If your team is falling short of high performance, examine where you are trying to force things to be clean rather than embrace the mess.
Making a latte and sipping it twice,
- Morning Cup