Leadership
Guide your team to an uncommon outcome.
Leadership
A leader’s most important responsibility is identifying the biggest challenges to forward progress and devising a coherent approach to overcoming them.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
Managers of managers, therefore, should ask management and leadership questions. For example, "What should you do to your organization to assure that due dates are met?" or "How well do your people understand the quality standards and what are you doing to assure they meet then?" These questions elicit quite a different response and help the
... See moreStephen Drotter • The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership-Powered Company (Jossey-Bass Leadership Series Book 254)
"Good engineering management" is a fad
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When your primary goal is to be liked, you can’t take risks. You can’t disagree. You can’t push boundaries. You become a prisoner of other people’s expectations.
Different Resolutions
Moving from an orchestration-heavy to leadership-heavy management role.
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A leader helps a group of people achieve an uncommon outcome that they couldn’t achieve on their own.
Don N.
Efficient and productive - often used interchangeably, but mean different things.
Efficient - doing the same with less.
Productive - doing more with the same.
From Don / Dan
Peter Cundhill on finding the right fit for talent:
“You can teach a donkey to climb a tree but it’s easier to hire a squirrel.”
“You can teach a donkey to climb a tree but it’s easier to hire a squirrel.”