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“Superpower #1: Focus and Commit to Priorities.”) Set goals from the bottom up. To promote engagement, teams and individuals should be encouraged to create roughly half of their own OKRs, in consultation with managers. When all goals are set top-down, motivation is corroded.
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: OKRs: The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth
Making decentralization and empowerment work on a large scale is no easy feat. Top and middle managers are effectively asked to share power and give up some control. To make it work, companies have found that they needed to very clearly spell out the kind of Green leadership that they expect from people in senior and middle management.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
believe the best managers acknowledge and make room for what they do not know—not just because humility is a virtue but because until one adopts that mindset, the most striking breakthroughs cannot occur.
Josh Seiden • Sense and Respond: How Successful Organizations Listen to Customers and Create New Products Continuously
Build self-awareness to build mutual awareness. Say the thing you think you cannot say. Distinguish between management and leadership. Come back to your operating system.
Claire Hughes Johnson • Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
A way to make this scaled alignment explicit is to help each person, each team, each department or division, and the enterprise as a whole construct their own outward-mindset-at-work diagrams.
The Arbinger Institute • The Outward Mindset: How to Change Lives and Transform Organizations
Choosing to see possibility, and committing to growing with and through others, moves us away from narrow, individualistic interpretations of our world to a more collective and collaborative perspective.
Paul Lawrence • The Wise Leader: A Practical Guide for Thinking Differently About Leadership
even for the brightest designers we have, it will be their ability to lead, persuade and collaborate with those in power, and their fellow citizens, that will guide to us making a better world.
Scott Berkun • How Design Makes the World
Seek fellow explorers. The world is not just changing; it’s becoming increasingly complex. Leverage the power of social flow by being an active participant in communities. Cultivate your existing relationships with intention. Share your skills and knowledge to foster collective curiosity. Connecting with others will not only expand your horizons an
... See moreAnne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
Reflect: A call to pause before you start the journey and then at various steps along the way, understanding that change and choice occur from the inside out. Connect: A step where you request feedback and counsel from trusted friends and guides, recognizing that isolation is fatal—no one should make this journey alone. Explore: A beginning of the
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