Who else should know about this? One lesson I liked from the Donella Meadows book, Thinking in Systems, is to “Honor, Respect and Distribute Information”. In other words, systems work better when relevant information is delivered accurately and promptly to the people within the system. When I was younger, I would get frustrated with leaders…
Month: February 2022
What can you deliberately practice to improve your leadership?”
What can you deliberately practice to improve your leadership? I’ve recently talked to a few clients working with a difficult coworker or situation, where they are frustrated and not seeing how things will ever change. So they have given up and decided to live with the existing difficulty, working around it as best as they…
Offer direct feedback. “
Offer direct feedback. I’ve had the following situation play out multiple times in the past week: My client tells me about a situation with another person, and tells me how that person isn’t doing what they want, and what they are concerned might happen if things don’t change. After a minute, I stop them and…
When is it time to move on? In other words, when you are facing a difficult situation, there’s always more you could do to make it work, so when do you decide you’ve done “enough”? “
When is it time to move on? In other words, when you are facing a difficult situation, there’s always more you could do to make it work, so when do you decide you’ve done “enough”? From a job perspective, I used to ask myself three questions: 1) What am I learning? What skills am I…
I am associated with the ProjectNext Leadership team, and wanted to share the survey they sent out to evaluate the leap that people make as they move from early management to company leadership
I am associated with the ProjectNext Leadership team, and wanted to share the survey they sent out to evaluate the leap that people make as they move from early management to company leadership. The results will help the Project Next team better assist leaders with that leap. Thanks!
Executives are exception handlers.” “” “In a recent Reboot podcast, Jerry Colonna shared that he thinks the CEO’s job is to build the machine that builds the products and services, not to build the products and services. The implication of that for me is that executives should not be involved in the day-to-day operations of…
Executives are exception handlers.”
Executives are exception handlers. In a recent Reboot podcast, Jerry Colonna shared that he thinks the CEO’s job is to build the machine that builds the products and services, not to build the products and services. The implication of that for me is that executives should not be involved in the day-to-day operations of a…
A quick no is better than a lingering maybe.” “” “One of my clients shared this advice she got from a mentor, and I love the simplicity of it. ” “” “Many of us value optionality to the point that we never want to close off options, so we never say no. But we don’t…
A quick no is better than a lingering maybe.”
A quick no is better than a lingering maybe. One of my clients shared this advice she got from a mentor, and I love the simplicity of it. Many of us value optionality to the point that we never want to close off options, so we never say no. But we don’t acknowledge the opportunity…