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Offer a choice. One of my friends gave me this advice for parenting toddlers. Ask “Do you want the red shirt or the green shirt?” and let the toddler choose. If you tell them “you’re wearing the red shirt”, it can quickly become a power struggle. A similar trick I’ve learned is not to tell…

I recently read about a Statistical Process Control theory principle that “Management is prediction”. I also recently read a reference to Jeff Hawkins’s book A Thousand Brains, where he lays out the cognitive theory that “thinking is prediction”. I connected these two ideas and explored the possibility that #management is organizational #cognition and connected that…

I take organizations from here to there. I’ve been talking to several clients about how to describe what they do, and what’s been resonating is describing the journey they can lead for an organization. A few examples from recent conversations: — I take a startup from Series A to Series B, putting in place the…

David Epstein’s interview with Jeff Eggers on leadership in context at https://lnkd.in/gi4GxGrS was interesting to me, particularly this line on the tension between the inspiring visionary and the institutional process manager necessary to bring that vision into sustainable reality. “on the one hand, you have to play the role of the unconstrained visionary who is…

I like this idea of the CEO’s job is to CARE: Clarity Alignment Resource Allocation Emotional Connectedness Jerry Colonna’s version at https://lnkd.in/gMAmeXKW is similar in that the CEO sets the vision (clarity), hires and orients the team (alignment and emotion), and gets them what they need to succeed (resource allocation). Note that there’s nothing here…