Lessons From the Field #26: When You Have to Make Your Own Team ⭐️
Today I learned that starfish can regenerate their arms.
Naturally, my first thought was not:
“Wow. Nature is incredible.”
It was:
“Do you have any idea how much I could accomplish if there were multiple versions of me?” 🤣
Think about it.
One of me could run operations.
One could finish school.
One could focus on writing and speaking.
One could actually take a vacation.
And one could have the full-time responsibility of finding me something to wear in Vegas. 😂
Of course, in my version, we’re all telepathically connected.
Because if I’m going to clone myself, I’m certainly not creating more people I have to schedule Teams meetings with.
We laughed about it.
A lot.
But then somewhere in the middle of this completely ridiculous conversation, something clicked.
I stopped laughing for a second and thought:
Wait.
There is actually a leadership lesson in this.
A pretty big one.
Because maybe the goal was never to have more versions of ourselves.
Maybe we’ve been thinking about building teams the wrong way.
And maybe a creature that can lose part of itself, regenerate, adapt and keep moving has something to teach us about leadership.
I started writing down my thoughts.
One idea became another.
Then another.
And somehow, a random conversation about a starfish became an entire leadership framework.
I’m not going to tell you what it is today. 😉
That’s next week’s Lessons From the Field.
But I will leave you with the question that started changing the way I thought about it:
If you couldn’t make another version of yourself, what would you have to build in the people around you so you didn’t need one?
Think about that one.
We’ll talk next week. ⭐️
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