Leadership
Guide your team to an uncommon outcome.
Leadership
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.”
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commoncog.com
My work identifies four fundamental organizational forms: the personal organization, like an entrepreneurial start-up; the programmed organization, like McDonald’s with its standardized processes; the professional organization, like a hospital, which relies on the expertise of its professionals; and the project organization, like a film company or ... See more
hbr.org
Smart people know an unsettling truth: loyalty must be given before it’s earned.
The best leaders I know extend trust and loyalty long before receiving it – they treat people as if they’ve already proven trustworthy. This seems naive until you realize it’s a forcing function: by acting as if people have already earned your trust, you create the cond... See more
The best leaders I know extend trust and loyalty long before receiving it – they treat people as if they’ve already proven trustworthy. This seems naive until you realize it’s a forcing function: by acting as if people have already earned your trust, you create the cond... See more
Shane Parrish • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
“Never sacrifice momentum. I might know a better path, but if we’ve got a lot of momentum, if everyone’s united and they’re marching together and the path is O.K., just go with the flow. I may eventually nudge them down a new path, but never stop the troops mid march.”