Coaching practices for The 10 10 10 Rule with My Team
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- This whole thing will be over and done within a day, so asking how I’ll feel in ten years is absurd
- I’m staring at a choice and the only thing I can feel is how it lands right now
- Under all this pressure to please people and react, I’m about to make a call that I already sense doesn’t square with who I actually want to be
- Everyone on my team is quietly playing for their own scoreboard
- People drop new "can you reprioritize this" requests on my team all week long and whoever asks loudest or latest wins
Practices that may help
- The 10-10-10 Rule
Suzy Welch's 10-10-10 rule asks you to evaluate a decision through three time horizons: how will I feel about this in 10 minutes, 10 months, and 10 years? It is a heuristic for countering short-term emotional reactions by making long-run consequences more cognitively vivid. Evidence for the technique specifically is limited, but it draws on well-supported research on temporal discounting and affective forecasting. - Calibrate the time horizons to the actual decision
10-10-10 is a template — adjust the horizons to the real timescale of the choice.
The 10-10-10 Rule - Apply all three horizons explicitly
Before deciding, write a sentence answering each: 10 minutes, 10 months, 10 years.
The 10-10-10 Rule - Use the 10-year view to check values alignment
Ask: is the 10-year version of this choice consistent with what I actually care about?
The 10-10-10 Rule - Align around collective results, not individual status
Teams fail when members prioritize their own visibility or department’s success over the shared goal.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Made Practical - Run a single weekly priority-setting meeting
Replace ad-hoc priority requests with one weekly meeting where the whole team re-sorts together.
The Eisenhower Matrix for Teams - Run a regular team elimination review
Periodically review what the team is doing that no longer serves any current goal.
The Eisenhower Matrix for Teams - Surface the source of urgency before accepting it
Ask whose urgency it is and whether it was created by a missing upstream action.
The Eisenhower Matrix for Teams - The 50/30/20 Budget: A Simple Framework for Where Your Money Goes
The 50/30/20 rule allocates after-tax income to needs (50%), wants (30%), and savings or debt (20%). It is a simple, memorable framework that works well as a starting point, but the percentages are guidelines, not scientific optima — anyone in a high cost-of-living area or with significant debt will likely need to adjust them. - Set one organization-wide priority per quarter
Identify the single most important thing the company must accomplish this quarter, and make it everyone’s top priority.
The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus
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- The 10 10 10 Rule As A Caregiver
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- The 10 10 10 Rule At Work
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- The 10 10 10 Rule For My Teenager
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- The 10 10 10 Rule When Starting Out
Suzy Welch's 10-10-10 rule asks you to evaluate a decision through three time horizons: how will I feel about this in 10 minutes, 10 months, and 10 years? It is a heuristic for countering short-term emotional reactions by making long-run consequences more cognitively vivid. Evidence for the technique specifically is limited, but it draws on well-supported research on temporal discounting and affective forecasting.
- The 10 10 10 Rule With Friends
Suzy Welch's 10-10-10 rule asks you to evaluate a decision through three time horizons: how will I feel about this in 10 minutes, 10 months, and 10 years? It is a heuristic for countering short-term emotional reactions by making long-run consequences more cognitively vivid. Evidence for the technique specifically is limited, but it draws on well-supported research on temporal discounting and affective forecasting.
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