#33 🧭💡 Principles for impact

Reflecting on the links between personal strategy and guiding principles

As a change maker, sometimes it can be difficult to progress when you might feel overwhelmed by the complexity of the challenge, the lack of tangible results or the lack of interest shown by others around you.

That’s why it’s useful to find ways to maintain hope in the endeavor you are part of, in the impact that you want to make in the context in which you act.

For me, one way to maintain hope through uncertainty and adversity is to follow some simple impact principles. Here are my six principles - I hope they resonate and that they’ll be useful to you as well.

Impact Principles

1. Start where you are.

2. Look around you.

3. Build on the energy.

4. Learn as you go.

5. Seek conversations.

6. Leave things better.

🚲 Start where you are, taking into account what you’re able to do.
👀 Look around you, spatially (farther, closer) and temporally (future, present, past).
⚡️ Build on the energy and on what emerges through your interactions.
🎮 Learn as you go, from everything and everyone.
👥 Seek conversations, as wisdom is usually in-between, in generative conversations.
👍 Leave things better than you found them.

Keep on making an impact,
Bülent

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Bülent Duagi is a Sr. Strategic adviser for Tech companies and a lifelong learner. He works at the intersection of Strategy, Foresight, Leadership, Org Design, Product and Capability Development. Connect on LinkedIn and learn more by exploring his professional one pager.