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Team members must appraise each other every year, based on competency models they can devise themselves.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
successful leveraging of top professionals is at the heart of the success of the professional firm.
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
The world is becoming more technologically complex, interdependent, and culturally diverse, which makes the building of relationships more and more necessary to get things accomplished and, at the same time, more difficult. Relationships are the key to good communication; good communication is the key to successful task accomplishment; and Humble
... See moreEdgar H Schein • Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling
Self-management: For people who join from traditional hierarchical organizations, self-management can be puzzling at first. A training program can help with understanding how it works, what is different and what stays the same, what skills are needed to thrive in such an environment, and so forth.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
While your spouse and family can be extremely important for support, they may not be equipped to deal with the magnitude of your professional issues in this area. Thus, develop a small, trusted network of people whose opinions you respect and are willing to honestly evaluate. My own make-up resisted this. As I marched forward as head coach, I becam
... See moreCraig Walsh • The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
paying attention to the clients’ own perspective, and most of all not recommending a direction which the practitioner wants the client to adopt without working with the client to decide the outcomes jointly with their stakeholder constellations.
Linda Holbeche • Organization Development: A Practitioner's Guide for OD and HR
As you build up your career, build a kitchen cabinet of people who can elevate you but also ensure you’re grounded (see above: be honest with you). These should be people you trust, people who have your best interests in mind, and people who aren’t afraid to tell you when you’re being an ass.
Scott Galloway • The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Success
Self-awareness has three components: understanding your underlying value system, identifying your innate preferences—your work style and decision-making tendencies—and being clear about your own skills and capability gaps.
Claire Hughes Johnson • Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
As it turned out, I later followed Bob’s advice and attended the leadership program at Cal Tech.