Fred Kofman - Your Job Is Not Your Job - Summary 🔗

The following are my main takeaways from each of the videos, quoting and paraphrasing the content.

What is your job? Your job is not what you do, but the goal you pursue.

• “I teach” => “I help people learn”
• “I drive a taxi” => “I help people get to where they want to go”
• “I coach people” => “I help people get to where they want to go”

What is the goal of every member of a company? To help the company win.

Doing your job may be hazardous to your career.

In a non-linear system, in order to optimize the system, you have to sub-optimize the sub-systems.

The problem is people get measured and compensated by the performance of their sub-system.

Why does the apple fall? Because of gravity or because I let it go?

Choose the answer that is within your control.

Why am I late? Because I was stuck in another meeting or because I choose to stay in the other meeting when it went over time?

Victim is a person that privileges explanations with external factors:

• What happened to you?
• Who is to blame?
• What did they do wrong?
• Why did they do it?
• What should they have done?
• What should they do now to fix it?

Player is a person that is able to respond:

• How did you contribute (by doing or not doing) to what happened?
• What can you do now?
• What can you learn from this?

Anything that makes you suffer is your problem.