*AndreA*’s Reviews > Leadership is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say -- and What You Don't > Status Update

The commitment statement should include a resolve to do the red work and a plan to shift back to Blue work based on meeting some condition or after some duration of red work. "I intend to start the next phase.. our next bluework pause will be in 10 days"

The reason that it is easier to commit to action when we put ourselves in learning mode, and the reason we are more resilient in action when facing setbacks, is that it taps the way our brains are wired. Humans like to explore, discover and learn new things. Psychologists call this the "seeking" system.

Move from Compliance to Commitment:
1. Commit to learn, not (just) do
2. Commit actions, not beliefs
3. Chunk it small but do it all

Compliance only gets minimum fulfillment of requirements, whereas commitment invites discretionary effort.

A culture of deliberate decision-making, an energetic bias for action, a focus on achieving excellence rather than avoiding errors, and personal ownership and accountability for outcomes. [...] The key is that there must be choice before there is commitment.

A well-designed experiment: has an end... is fully documented... is conducted under controlled conditions.

If you're running your meeting properly and divergent thinking still isn't happening, your responsibility as a leader is to go looking for it... your confidence in a decision should directly correlate with the amount of divergent thinking that went into it.

Since all innovation starts as an outlier thought, driving consensus is bound to suppress innovation.

Technique: "pause, rewind, fast-forward"...
1) What do you see? How do you see it?
2) How did we get here? What happened before this?
3) What would we want to have happen? What should we do next?

Tell me about that...
How would that work?...
What is behind your decision?... What do you see?
How do you see that?...
What might go wrong?...
What am I missing?...
What could we do better?