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Why Enemies Are So Important In Team Building
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” – Ancient proverb “United” is theoretically useless. It becomes practically useful only when we’re united against something or united for something. It’s all about what you want and what you’re willing to give up to get it....
How To Deal With Others’ Drains On Your Time
Time management would be so much easier if everyone else left you alone to do your work. But they drag you into meetings, ask questions, want to check in or ask you to do other things. Welcome some of these interruptions. Manage the rest either by saying no, doing...
How Top Hockey Agent Pat Brisson Takes Years To Create Great Moments Of Success
Of the 126 top professional hockey agents, one, Pat Brisson, represented 10 of last year’s 31 first round draft picks - over 40 times his “fair” share. Here’s the secret. Those 10 players didn’t pick Brisson after they were drafted. Brisson and his team of 25 agents,...
The ART Of Decision Rights
Their article explains that Starbucks board Chairwoman Mellody Hobson said Johnson’s decision to leave was his own, not the result of any board or outside push. “It’s been deliberate.” “This is not hasty in any way.”
Why Starbucks Naming Howard Schultz As Interim CEO Is A Huge Red Flag
Charan thinks this inflation will not be temporary and will take a number of years to work through the system. He thinks there’s a possibility of it becoming “insidious” as people adopt a psychology of hoarding.
Why And How To Manage Through This Inflation Differently Per Ram Charan
Charan thinks this inflation will not be temporary and will take a number of years to work through the system. He thinks there’s a possibility of it becoming “insidious” as people adopt a psychology of hoarding.
Why You Should Sacrifice Ideal Job Criteria For Long-Term Goals In Choosing Your Next Job
A BRAVE approach to finding your next job gives you a framework for adding deliberate thinking to an emotional process and your ultimate choice. The crux of the issue is getting at the right weighting of the dimensions driving your choice – especially between your...
What Matters Now: Other-Focused Leadership
Let’s mash up three ideas: 1) The world needs more other-focused leaders, 2) Happiness is good, or more precisely, three goods: doing good for others, doing things you are good at, and doing good for yourself. 3) Great leaders bring out others’ self confidence. “They can because they think they can.” – Virgil
Taking all those together inevitably leads to the conclusion that other-focused leaders focus their efforts on influencing others and motivate them in new and interesting ways that brings out their self-confidence. This is extraordinarily important at this moment in time. The unintended consequences of treating current events as zero-sum competitive games are going to hurt us all – unless we change.
When And How To Tell, Co-Create Or Delegate
First, understand the difference between the three. Then, tell for compliance. Co-create for commitment. Delegate for accountability. Tell In Bryan Smith’s Tell – Sell – Test – Consult – Co-create framework for persuading others, Telling is one-way...
Executive Onboarding Lessons From Disney CEO Bob Iger
The most important lesson in Bob Iger’s book, “The Ride of a Lifetime” is that “a little respect goes a long way, and the absence of it is often very costly.” Respect yourself, colleagues and brand. Respect yourself A big part of self-respect is self-confidence -...