Leadership: don’t say it
You may have a very good point. You may be entirely in the right. It may be that you’ve understood their (bad) motivation perfectly, that… Read More »Leadership: don’t say it
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Peter Drucker on Freedom
Freedom … is not the same as individual happiness, nor is it security or peace and progress. It is not the state in which the… Read More »Peter Drucker on Freedom
How tools spread
How do tools – ideas and understandings, practices, and real physical tools – get to the people who need them? Some tools may only need… Read More »How tools spread
Leading, ends and means
Those who set the purpose or the direction for a team need to exercise their authority and be absolutely insistent about the end states to be achieved,… Read More »Leading, ends and means
“How do I take these thoroughbreds and turn them into a team?”
Getting a team together? Start building it before you’re even in the room. Kathy Delaney-Smith is the coach of the Harvard woman’s basketball team… A… Read More »“How do I take these thoroughbreds and turn them into a team?”
Blood and Bone (2): policy from decisions
An easy way to start making policy is to take a moment to record decisions you’ve made and why you made them. When you can… Read More »Blood and Bone (2): policy from decisions
Some rules for future success
Know what’s important… …and know what’s for you (and what isn’t)… … and act accordingly – NOW. Be ‘on assignment‘ – make stuff happen, get… Read More »Some rules for future success
Starting line
Where’s the starting line? Sometimes we’re a few steps further down the track than the people we want to take with us: we’ve given it… Read More »Starting line
Value loop
Most businesses that prosper create value for their communities and their customers as well as themselves, and the most successful businesses do so in part… Read More »Value loop
Team performance (3): Learning and individual growth
Richard Hackman‘s third lens on teams and team performance looks at what happens to the individuals on the team. Individual Growth What happens to the… Read More »Team performance (3): Learning and individual growth