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Want To Be Wiser? Strive To Be Wrong.
“No one should be ashamed to admit they were wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.” – Alexander Pope
Go further. Actively strive to be wrong. Run experiments to learn and grow. Get help from those with different perspectives to see things differently.
This combines learning from Daniel Kahneman on deliberate thinking, Adam Grant on scientific thinking, and Roger Neill on best current thinking.
The Three Most Important Ideas From 750 Forbes Articles On Executive Onboarding And Leadership Transitions
You’ve figured out the intersections. Executive onboarding and points of inflection are crucibles of leadership. These are when great leaders’ confidence in their own ability to bring out others self-confidence matters most.
When To Fire, Focus Or Nurse People In The Wrong Roles
Fire them, moving them out if they’re hurting themselves or others and don’t belong in your organization in any role.
Focus them, changing the role they’re in, or moving them over or up if they’re in the right organization, but wrong role.
Nurse them if they’re in the right role but underperforming or as an intermediate step on the way to focusing or firing them.
How You Manage Differences Can Change Levels Of Compliance
Not all compliance is equal. There are meaningful differences between open and passive-aggressive non-compliance, minimal, and supportive compliance. You can move some people from one to another by helping them adjust their attitudes with careful management of...
Why It’s Crucial To Align Brand Positioning With The Essence Of Your Organization
Everything communicates - everything you do and say and don’t do and don’t say internally and externally. Given that, aligning what you say about your brand with what you do and what you are as an organization has to make sense. Do that by connecting every aspect of...
Rio Tinto’s New CEO Must Pick Up the Pieces After Failed Acquisitions
Many overpay for acquisitions by upwards of 30 percent. This is why so many acquisitions fail. And some spectacularly poor due diligence has led to some spectacular acquisition failures. Witness HP and Autonomy and now Rio Tinto and Alcan and Riversdale. Preventing...
Why Leading With Positives Improves 360-Degree Feedback
360-degree feedback is a simple tool that can make an amazing difference. It both depersonalizes feedback and personalizes it at the same time.
At its core, it’s a way to gather feedback on an individual in all directions: up, across and down. It provides the “What” in a “What? So what? Now what?” approach to feedback.
It depersonalized feedback by enabling a reviewer to downplay their own personal views. It personalizes it by bringing in the personal views of others. Done wrong it can “shred the fabric of trust in an organization.” Done right, it’s a valuable tool as part of a comprehensive talent assessment and development system.
Why The Highest Level Of Strength — Craft-Level Mastery — Requires Apprenticeship
People used to work their way up from apprentices to journeymen to master craftsmen. This involved seven-year apprenticeships as indentured servants living, eating and working alongside master craftsmen and their families. While some of that is way out of date, some...
How Asking ‘What If…?’ Works Offensively And Defensively
In many ways, this is the essence of a team’s tactical capacity – high-quality responsiveness under difficult, changing conditions. Teams with strong tactical capacity empower each member, communicate effectively with the team and leader to create critical solutions to the inevitable problems that arise on an ongoing basis, and to implement them quickly. They are constantly asking “What if…?” offensively, defensively and in thinking about they work together.
How A Favor Bank Mindset Can Improve Networking
The most tactically effective networkers approach every conversation with clear objectives for what they want out of those conversations. But the most effective networkers over time approach those same conversations with the objective of helping others.