The View from the Air

Feeling overwhelmed? 

Recently, ploughing through reams of leadership theories and models, I stood back from my messy whiteboard and wondered: does management have to be this complicated?

Then I remembered it doesn’t. I escaped this valley of overthink via an old memory: the helicopter view. Using it to organise my thoughts reminded me it’s a remarkable leadership tool in its own right. 

It’s not new. I first heard it in a cadet officer’s course in 1966. It was in army-speak then, but it applies to just about anything. 

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