214. Jugglers Anonymous

At The Table with Patrick Lencioni

Patrick Lencioni

Pat, Business, Success, Work, Entrepreneurship, Companyculture, Patricklencioni, Teamwork, Leadership, Organizationalhealth, Culture, Management

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🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Juggling too many things is dangerous, especially as a leader. This week, Pat and the team discuss the importance of simplicity as it relates to our priorities and how we spend our time.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode about the Table with Patrick Linconey,
0:13.0	where everything we talk about is related to organizational health and the world of work.
0:17.0	I'm Pat Linconey, your host, joined by the full crew of Tracy, Cody, Bow.
0:21.0	How are you guys? Great.
0:22.6	That's good to hear.
0:23.8	We're not going to do that anymore.
0:25.2	Karen's online remotely.
0:27.4	So is Matt producing?
0:29.9	Cody, what is our topic?
0:32.4	Jugglers Anonymous.
0:34.5	Yeah, let me explain what we mean by this.
0:36.5	One of the hardest things about leading well
0:38.2	is the temptation to do everything well.
0:40.9	Or for that matter, to do everything at all. We like to use the analogy of juggling.
0:44.8	A leader has to juggle so many different priorities. The problem is trying to juggle too many
0:49.5	things is actually a recipe for burnout and mediocrity.
0:53.4	Yeah, mediocrity.
0:55.0	We spread our time and energy across 10 different things,
0:58.2	which makes it likely that none of them
1:00.7	will turn out to be excellent. So let's talk about this,
1:04.0	how we can stop trying to juggle too many things,
1:06.0	and where this comes from.
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