Management and high performance
hiring, meetings, management frameworks, etc
Management and high performance
What you don’t want to happen is unsustainable stress, or for people to not share failure or tell you when you’re wrong. So you need to actively fight this as the leader by: a) asking for dissent (“does everyone agree this is the right path? Does anyone disagree”? and letting a silence hang until someone speaks) b) reward debate.
Sam Gerstenzang • Operating well – what I learned at Stripe
• What are your goals for yourself? What steps are you taking to achieve them?
• When are you most energized at work? How can you do more of that?
• On a scale of one to ten, how challenged do you feel? How challenged would you like to feel?
Dan Rockwell • Set Goals That Strengthen Relationships
many people, including this person, carry the attitudes and habits they pick up at their first job around for quite a long time
Culture matters
There is, however, a simple formula for checking if what you’re doing is sustainable: how long does it take on a vacation or weekend until you stop feeling anxious, and how anxious do you start feeling when you think about returning to work on Monday?
A Forty-Year Career.
Before an interview, I sometimes re-read this great passage from Philip Roth’s American Pastoral :
You might as well have the brain of a tank. You get them wrong before you meet them, while you’re anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you’re with them; and then you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them all... See more
Graham Duncan Blog • What’s going on here, with this human?
I sometimes visualize meeting one person as the equivalent of meeting the Ocean’s 11 crew together at once, wrapped up in one human envelope—we each have distinct parts, and we tell a story to ourselves and the world that they are a coherent whole, but depending on the context different parts step forward into the light on the stage.
Graham Duncan Blog • What’s going on here, with this human?
I like asking up-front, “So what criteria would you use if you were the one hiring someone for this role?”
