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- Finally, the executive is within an organization.
Peter F. Drucker • The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)
The organization supports coaching for those in top positions, knowing that simply having a sounding board outside the organization can prevent the insularity that undermines adaptability.
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
Adam Grant • PrinciplesYou From Ray Dalio
Doing this requires one simple routine: a well-structured, one-day monthly management meeting that includes everyone who supervises or manages anyone in the business. It should be a day focused on learning, sharing, and problem-solving vs. a day of mind-numbing reports. Do anything short of hosting this meeting, and the business will ultimately out
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In every organization, there is a natural tension between the need for expertise and the need to let frontline people make decisions.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
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Alex MacCaw • The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building
Diagnose problems to get at their root causes.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
The CEO Next Door: The 4 Behaviors that Transform Ordinary People into World-Class Leaders
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The very best executives tend to be a combination of a router (i.e., they send items on to other people for execution and end meetings with few to no action items for themselves), a strategist, and a problem solver (i.e., someone who can identify when the team is off track and dive in to help).