A quick intro ...
Early in my career, I attributed my successes to my ability.
I was reasonably smart. And I had the drive to complete tasks. That shaped my view of how success is achieved. Success is about me - my skills, my experience, my brains, my drive.
I was wrong.
At some point (I don’t remember exactly when) I started seeing that skills, experience, brains, and drive weren’t enough.
I met great accountants, for example, who had these things. And I met great sales people who also had these things. Smart, skilled people were everywhere. But they often hit a plateau. Or, more accurately, they advanced to greater and greater responsibilities where their skills, experience, brains and drive were no longer enough.
They couldn’t scale.
But there were others who could comfortably handle any challenge.
They seemingly operated at a different level. It wasn’t deeper role-specific skills. It wasn’t greater intellectual brilliance, although they were all really smart. It wasn’t breadth of experience, although they always seemed to know what to do when an unexpected challenge arose. And it wasn’t superhuman effort; they actually seemed relaxed.
They didn’t have ‘more’ skills, brains, experience and drive.
They understood performance at a different level.
The Responsibility Matrix is a performance activation framework
It is for ambitious individuals who already sense there's another level to performance and leadership — and are ready to find it.
Most frameworks offer instructions or tips for what to do differently. TRM offers something more fundamental. It shows you how you can create your own activation framework by integrating a few simple, key ideas. It works regardless of your role or title.
The next level stops feeling like a stretch. It starts to feel comfortably inevitable.
And you don't need anyone's permission to start.