.**January 23, 2024** #### Links [Transistor](https://share.transistor.fm/s/4415b8f7) [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/3DBRCVFep0YbYeLPcVVXQv) [Google Podcasts](https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2lzdG9yLmZtL2Vzc2VudGlhbC1keW5hbWljcy13aXRoLWRlcmVrLWh1ZHNvbg?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwin24vksc-DAxUNm44IHYKABVcQ9sEGegQIARAG) [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/essential-dynamics-with-derek-hudson/id1542392917) [Podcast Addict](https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/essential-dynamics-with-derek-hudson/3153944) #### Summary The biggest leverage point in any organization is to optimize the use of management attention. #### Concepts - [[Purpose]] - [[The Management Attention Deficit Problem]] - [[Drivers]] - [[Constraints]] #### Quotes >I'm feeling frazzled because I don't even know where to focus. >Yeah, I'm doing stuff, but I'm just not getting the value. >If management attention is a critical resource then you want to make sure it is deployed to the highest effect, and you can't do that if you are not clear on your purpose. >When something is a constraint, it's only a constraint if it limits you from achieving your purpose...so if you know the constraint, maybe you know the purpose. >When you're in the zone, when you have flow, that energy is aligned to your purpose. There's no doubt about that. >When you aren't in control of your attention, it is very hard to work on the fact that your attention is the problem. >Management attention is something that you can't buy more of. Management attention is something that you can't reacquire; it's not something that can be frivolously wasted. >The biggest leverage point in any organization is to optimize the use of management attention. #### See also - Ann MacTaggart, Glen Vanstone, and Derek Hudson are with [Unconstrained](https://getunconstrained.com/). - [[Episode 85 The Most Critical Resource]] %% >I think there's this intuition that progress is being redefined, and so being really busy achieving, or trying to achieve, what has been harder now than it was in the past...and it doesn't quite fit. this is a good one to refine >So maybe you can derive purpose from where you find flow, or maybe you set out to achieve your purpose and that's how you create flow. They are all related. Management attention, drivers, constraints, drivers and purpose, it's all this flywheel, where when we can tap into it then we get that flow state where the system creates its own energy and we define and adjust the constraint until it's the channel that concentrates the energy.