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Why Management by Objective is Unsustainable
BRAVE Leadership is at the heart of The New Leader’s Playbook:
We’re all new leaders all the time. So remember all the time that leadership is about inspiring and enabling others to do their absolute best together to realize a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose. With that in mind, BRAVE leaders pay attention to their Behaviors, Relationships, Attitude, Values, and Environment – all the time.
Planning Your Future When the Future You Had Planned Goes Awry
When the future you had planned goes awry, hit re-start, adjust and realign your people, plans and practices around your shared purpose.
Want To Fail Fast? Do These Three Things.
Failing fast is one of those ideas that seems like a great thing – for others to do. No one likes to fail. And failing leaders have a nasty habit of believing they can fix things at every step of the way, leading to painfully slow failures – death by a thousand cuts. If you’re going to fail, do it fast: 1) talk to customers, 2) test and 3) make early sales.
Make Technology Work for You or Else…
“The machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire. Their war to exterminate mankind had raged for decades, but the final battle would not be fought in the future. It would be fought here, in our present.” – James Cameron and Gail Hurd in The Terminator
The machines are winning.
Today’s technology is adding addictions, disrupting the workflow and making many of us less efficient and eff…(Sorry – had to respond to a text message. But I’m back now.)…making us less efficient and effective.
This was not the hope. This was not the promise. This was not what we set out to do. It’s time to make the technology work for us instead of letting the machines win.
Technology is a means to our ends, not an end itself. Approach it with the right attitude. You don’t want your movie to end the way the Terminator series does. The machines are winning. We have to turn the tide.
The Return Trip Advantage: A CEO’s Perspective of Doing Well By Doing Good
The key to doing well by doing good is the “both and” or “return trip” nature of the effort, the actions that make a difference have both a meaningful impact on society and provide a tangible reward to the organization doing the giving.
New Year, New Boss — Same Old Fear
On the Job: New Boss Means New Way of Working
Acing the Only Three True Job Interview Questions
But what happens when you’re responding to questions from someone who hasn’t been trained in interviewing? Take charge in a way that makes them feel good about themselves and what they uncover about you. To do this successfully, follow three simple steps: Think – Answer – Bridge
Think before opening your mouth.
Answer the question asked.
Bridge to answer the true underlying question.
New Leader’s Playbook Highlights: A 2012 Year in Review
Readers of The New Leader’s Playbook in 2012 were most interested in 1) getting a job, 2) onboarding into a new job, and 3) BRAVE leadership in the job
Three Steps to Managing Executive Onboarding as the Crucible of Leadership It Is
Whether you are a new leader yourself or are helping a new leader transition into a new job or assignment, give executive onboarding the attention it deserves by thinking in terms of destination, context and communication.
Step One: Destination – Commit to the cause yourself, or help people you bring in understand and commit to the cause.
Step Two: Context – Choose the team, route and resources appropriate for the context.
Step Three: Communication – Follow through in terms of adjusting resources, boundaries and relationships.