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How often do you stop yourself from doing the thing you know is right, because it feels like it isn’t your call? And how many people around you are doing the same?

In a recent conversation on Dig Deeper, City of Vincent CEO David MacLennan shared a formula from Tim Gallwey’s The Inner Game of Tennis: performance equals potential minus interference. In this solocast I explore what changes when you see your job as clearing what’s in the way rather than adding more.

Key takeaways:

• Why removing interference matters more than adding capability
• The three kinds of interference: practical, structural and psychological
• Why frustrating rules usually start out as sensible ones
• What it means to be a “pain manager”
• How one staff survey across 25 areas led to decisions that freed things up
• How hosting looks different from heroing when it comes to potential
• Two questions to take into your week

Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(00:10) Permission and “that’s not my lane”

(01:15) The Inner Game of Tennis formula

(02:02) Potential minus interference

(02:32) Three kinds of interference

(03:02) Why interference piles up, and the pain manager

(03:35) The City of Vincent staff survey

(04:01) We don’t grow potential, we release it

(05:05) Two questions for your week

Listen to the full conversation with David MacLennan: [Interview] Leading a City for Lasting Impact | David MacLennan

Others mentioned:

The Inner Game of Tennis, W. Timothy Gallwey

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