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Stop Decorating the Fish
by Kristen Cox
Become a better professional, a more confident manager, and a much more effective leader.
Episodes
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Episode 18: Confusing the means with the ends
It's so easy when we have a problem to presuppose we know the solution and start down a path where we get far too prescriptive, far too detailed, far too soon. As a result, we cut ourselves off from some very creative, possible solutions.
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Episode 17: Thinking like a good steward
In this episode we walk through two, important ideas: always keeping the opportunity costs in mind, and a simple but effective way to calculate the proposed return on investment (ROI) for your next initiative. When we combine these two concepts, we create very strong business cases and start...
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Episode 16: The emotional maturity needed to be a leader
Being a great leader, an effective leader, is not just an exercise in being book smart or how well you know your field. It's just as much about your emotional maturity, how well you know yourself, and how well you can work with others. In this episode we dive into our emotional blind spots, doing...
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Episode 15: Seven indicators of a problematic strategy
A step-by-step way to tell if your strategy (or strategic plan) is on solid ground, or might be setting you up for problems
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Episode 14 - Kristen interviews Rami Goldratt about inertia and innovation
What a privilege we have in this episode to hear directly from Rami Goldratt, one of the world's leading spokesmen on the Theory of Constraints (TOC), the son of Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt, TOC's founder, and CEO of the highly successful Goldratt Group. Rami provides insight after insight into the…
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Episode 13: The real work of building a culture
What does it take to build a great culture...really? Is it just perks? Or is it something much deeper? And can we build a culture directly? Or is it a byproduct of something else? That's what we tackle in this episode.
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Episode 12: What is my role in this?
We have a professional problem. We get frustrated. It's very common to succumb to a basic instinct: to blame our team, our boss...someone! Our next step is often to impose more oversight and more accountability (one of the Seductive Seven). This is a tough one to catch and fix, because it…
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Episode 11: Taking the harder path
In this episode, we explore Dr. Goldratt's unique definition of value creation and how we tend to fall into the trap of creating more-and-more inward-facing goals over time--goals designed to improve the bureaucracy and make our work lives better, but often do not translate into removing any...
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Episode 10: You can't train your way out of a bad system
Training is great, and needed...when the underlying forces that really drive the organization's consistent behavior are positive, healthy, and in alignment. Training on top of a complex set of unhealthy, unexamined dynamics is fish decorating.
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Episode 9: A new, refreshing way to approach strategic planning
Join us in this episode to question some of your deeply help assumptions about strategic planning, and discover a streamlined, highly-effective "reframing" of how to approach it.
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Episode 8: Diagnosing and solving self-perpetuating problems
Learn how to apply systems thinking to problem solving with a simple, powerful diagram that let's you see the cause-and-effect relationships that ultimately feed back on themselves to create chronic problems. Then, learn how to find the focal point in the cycle you can flip to create virtuous...
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Episode 7: Finding Your North Star
Our organizations all tend to drift away from what really matters. In this episode, we talk about what we can hold onto, what we can navigate by that will ensure we keep our focus in the right place.
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Episode 6: A reorg will fix our problem?
Why is it that we keep thinking we just need to merge with another organization (external or internal), or go through a lengthy reorganization (reorg) process, and that will fix our problem (even when the vast majority of such efforts fail)? What is the logical fallacy we keep falling for, and…
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Episode 5: The, "We just need more money..." trap
There may come a time when you have a problem at work and you actually do need more money as part of your overall solution. But you never start there. You never just assume that's the answer--that's lazy thinking. You have to earn your way into having that discussion by diligently trying a number...
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Episode 4: The Data Delusion
We are continually hearing about how we need to be more data-driven in our leadership and management approaches, but we rarely hear how we can take that too far, and/or how we might be putting the cart before the horse in many cases. Learn when and how to use data appropriately, and the key...
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Episode 1: The Stop Decorating the Fish backstory
This is the first episode in our new series, exclusively for Fulcrum members, on the material covered in Kristen and Yishai's two books: "Stop Decorating the Fish" and "The World of Decorating the Fish." In this episode, we talk about the backstory for the "fish decorating" idea, give an overview...
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Episode 2: Systems Thinking Fundamentals
The quickest, easiest way I know of to start learning the fundamentals of systems thinking.
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Episode 3: The Technology Trap
You have a serious problem at work, and you're convinced you need more technology to solve it (one of the Seductive Seven traps that my co-author, Dr. Yishai Ashlag, and I wrote about in our two books). Perhaps tech is going to be part of the solution, and there are many software vendors out…
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Become a better professional, a more confident manager, and a much more effective leader.
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Kristen Cox
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