Beware the Personality trap. Personality can get you authority but it won’t help you make better decisions. Popularity or Power can be achieved by managing Perceptions. By Personality. Is the key to leadership in how you interact with others? Empathy, assertiveness, listening, inspiring, or dominating? Maybe it is? If personality…
60. Your Leadership Journey
You may have a job as a leader but that’s not a fixed state. Leadership is not a destination. It’s certainly not a place. Leadership is not a trophy to put on the wall or a badge to wear. Leadership is a journey. It’s an important journey that often starts…
59. Important Work Ahead..
Life is complicated. How we perceive the world is barely understood by scientists. That we perceive anything is some kind of miracle. DNA + upbringing and conditioning help us sort masses of inputs into a picture of the world around us. Our brains take that and tell us what to…
58. Q5: How long do we need?
Routines run the world. What we do every day, every week is what determines our fate, not what we wish we’d do. It’s nice to wish that a problem could be solved quickly but what do we do with those that can’t? Any leader can ask “when will you finish?”,…
57. Q4: Where are we Headed?
Knowing where the team is, is a fundamental responsibility of leadership. Keeping track of progress is a serious task that should occupy a reasonable part of all leaders’ time. But knowing where you are isn’t enough. Knowing whether you hit the target or not, isn’t enough. All Leaders ask “Are…
56. Q3: What’s Important?
Confusion can come from not understanding a problem. It can also come from having too many choices. Too many choices & not understanding are linked. Our 3rd Leadership Question is about targets and priorities. All leaders set Targets – good leaders ask “What’s important?” Target setting is easy – it…
55. Q2: What don’t we Know?
Our 1st Leadership Question was Which problem needs Solving?. We have started our journey on the Learning Curve, because we’ve focused. Whatever that problem is, we will automatically start taking action. We can’t help ourselves as humans – we need to Do something. The challenge with our action orientation is…
54. Q1: Which problem are we trying to Solve?
All great discoveries start with a question. So too does anything you will create, or be successful at. We want to do something and realize we can’t. We realize that there’s something we need to learn. The greatest achievements in business or in organizations start exactly the same way. Only…
53. Meeting with Friends.
There’s something very comforting about walking a familiar path, or the company of old friends. Did you ever consider why? It’s because our brains aren’t stressed. We’re not learning new basic information. We know so much already and we can focus just on what’s important. This is important for leaders…
52. Meet with Triumph and Disaster…
Ambition drives achievement, but it can also drive avoidance of reality. Likewise failure can be heartbreaking, and can drive avoidance of the same reality. A leader’s job is to ensure reality features in decision making – not just ambition and fear. A good predictor of a team’s future success is…