Drucker memo…
This comes from Peter Drucker’s self-management technique “feedback analysis,” which involves writing down your expectations today to improve your performance tomorrow.
He suggests when embarking on an important decision, key moment, or starting a big project write down what you expect will happen in 9-12 months.
Dan Pink in one of of his excellent Pinkcasts suggests doing this every 6 months. Write a paragraph or two what will unfold, don’t read it again until a notification pings up in 6 months to read it.
He calls this his Drucker memo, where he can see if expectations meet reality.
The process helps you see blind spots clearly and by identifying problems in retrospect some of them have not become issues in reality.
The technique also helps you understand your strengths and the gap between what you expected and reality, did you deploy your strengths well.
Dan Pink’s greatest insight is that it can make you bolder, by forcing yourself to think about expectation it clears a pattern of pessimism you might have been locked into. The new pattern is to be more emboldened.
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