Create & Destroy

It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that making something better for you is the same thing as making something better.

Before you create a new system or destroy an existing one, take a beat, identify who else this change will affect, and seek out perspective from those people.

Then ask:

Is this change net positive?
Is this change worth the effort?

There’s always an infinite list of things that could be marginally better, and most of these things are worth ignoring. The goal isn’t to simply do work, but to do work that will move the needle in a meaningful way.

Workplaces are ecosystems. Your actions affect your team, your organization, and your guests.

Focus on the things that will create the biggest positive change for the most people, and leave the rest alone.

This isn’t to say that details don’t matter, they do, but I’ve found when you attack the big things, the details have a way of sorting themselves out.