Smol Thoughts: On Leadership, Decision Making & Not Being an Ass
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Smol Thoughts: On Leadership, Decision Making & Not Being an Ass
DECISION-MAKING IS centered around gathering information, assessing it, and deciding what is pertinent for your specific situation, and what is the right decision for that moment. It may not work out, but knowing that you made the most informed, thoughtful, and intelligent decision based on the information you could gather at the time is all that
... See moreDavid Falkner • Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner
My favorite wisdom bombs from @bhorowitz:
"The psychological muscle you have to build to be a great leader is to be able to look in the abyss and go, 'Okay, both ways are terrible. That way is slightly better. We're gonna go that way.'"
"A lot of success is about a small thing, a small thing... See more
Lenny Rachitskyx.comIt seems to me that solitude is the very essence of leadership. The position of the leader is ultimately an intensely solitary, even intensely lonely one. However many people you may consult, you are the one who has to make the hard decisions. And at such moments, all you really have is yourself.
William Deresiewicz • “Solitude and Leadership”
The five skills, in the author's words, are cross-cutting, collaborating, coaching, culture shaping, and connecting.
Cross-cutting: developing networks that extend to a diversity of people,
Collaborating: fostering psychological safety to increase team performance,
Coaching: having critical conversations that develop others’ potential,
Culture shaping: