Sublime

An early lesson I learned in my career was that whenever a large organization attempts to do anything, it always comes down to a single person who can delay the entire project. An engineer might get stuck waiting for a decision or a manager may think she doesn’t have authority to make a critical purchase. These small, seemingly minor hesitations ca

From the (not so) small talk, Bill moved to performance: What are you working on? How is it going? How could he help? Then, we would always get to peer relationships, which Bill thought were more important than relationships with your manager and other higher-ups.

Your personal tuning.

Bill achava que a liderança era algo que se desenvolvia como resultado da excelência em gestão. “Como você convence as pessoas e as ajuda a florescer em seu ambiente? Não é sendo um ditador. Não é dizendo a elas que diabos têm que fazer. É fazendo com que se sintam valorizadas por estarem na sala…

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Conformist-Amber consciousness develops a deeper awareness of other people’s feelings and perceptions.

However, all authority relationships, both formal and informal, appear to fit the same basic definitional pattern: power entrusted for service–“I look to you to serve a set of goals I hold dear.”

Weak leaders silence voice and shoot the messenger. Strong leaders welcome voice and thank the messenger. Great leaders build systems to amplify voice and elevate the messenger.

Steve connects with the audience before he even speaks, because through his nervousness, he shows them that he is just like them. They are rooting for him before he ever says a word.

She truly enjoys meeting and talking to people. She asks probing questions that encourage people to reveal themselves. She projects a nonthreatening image that says it’s safe to talk. She seems to have an intuitive sense of how to mine stories that unearth epiphanies into human behavior.