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

  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. Apply all three horizons explicitly
    Before deciding, write a sentence answering each: 10 minutes, 10 months, 10 years.
    The 10-10-10 Rule
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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.
  10. 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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