Articles Categorised with "Leadership and Org culture"

• 09-07-2024

  174 - Do you work in an organization where everybody works one level lower than they should?

  Micromanagement tends to roll down. Everybody works one level lower than they should—this is the cascade of micromanagement. Your boss’s boss meddles in your boss’s work; your boss does your work; and you do your report’s work; and so on. ...

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• 21-06-2024

  173 - The negotiating trick few talk about

  Negotiations are won by whoever cares less. We know this in our bones, yet tune it out too often. ...

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• 11-06-2024

  172 - The difference between informing and evoking

  This newsletter has talked about the difference between feedback and observations. Feedback, especially in professional settings, has got the air of walking on eggshells. It is hard to get it right and harder for it to be consistently effective. ...

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• 21-03-2024

  167 - Skeptical and open-minded - operating in two modes at the workplace

  At some point in my job, I started functioning in two modes. ...

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• 07-03-2024

  163 - What does your report likely mean when she says she wants to do new things?

  Several times in my career, I’ve heard this and I’ve said this: “I want to do new things; I want to grow; I don’t want to just keep doing the same thing again and again.”...

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• 01-03-2024

  161 - SMART goals are doing your team harm

  SMART goals can be counterproductive for your team or business unit. This runs contrary to popular belief. ...

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• 27-02-2024

  160 - “Do you think trying to adopt a leadership style that’s not your natural style could backfire?”

  Last week, I published a piece on managing a transition in your career: role change, job change, or both. The piece made the point that the optimal leadership style is situation-dependent. A go-go-go leader who can see the firm through a...

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• 03-02-2024

  152 The “even more” strategy

  One year, at our annual offsite, the company leadership shared the mantra for the year: the Genius of the AND. ...

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• 25-01-2024

  149 - Making the other person run out of things to say

  The Drama Triangle and our roles in it ...

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• 22-01-2024

  148 - Head without heart is a logic bully

  The boss, a marketing director, has been pulled into an urgent one-on-one by his brand manager. The boss’s day is already packed but he’s made an exception for her....

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• 26-12-2023

  139 - Why do we hire talent like we’re buying a boring car?

  How to reduce the problem of workforce homogeneity ...

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• 20-12-2023

  138 - What causes success?

  ‘And so you start to wonder—what correlates the most to success—team, product, or market? Or, more bluntly, what causes success? And, for those of us who are students of startup failure—what’s most dangerous: a bad team, a weak...

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• 14-12-2023

  136 - Akbar, don’t worry about Birbal

  How to overcome the loss of your domain-specific expert in your org or team ...

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• 15-10-2023

  111 - Commander’s Intent and That Sweet Spot between Micromanaging and Abandoning

  ‘In a principal-agent model,’ writes Nobel Laureate Richard Thaler in Misbehaving, ‘the principal is the boss, often the owner of a firm, and the agent is someone to whom authority is delegated.’...

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• 18-09-2023

  101 - Great leaders enjoy the deepest level of our permission

  Learning permission marketing from an ex train ticket examiner ...

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• 06-09-2023

  97 - Do your thinking frames serve you well?

  Some ways of looking at the world are unhelpful. One of them is imagining the world as opposing forces in a competing frame. I win, you lose. Locked forever in perfect competition....

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• 31-08-2023

  95 - Practical leadership—lessons from…

  Takeaways: 1. As a leader, it's ok to want to be on top of things. Don't let that make you anxious. Set up a system for fixing...

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• 22-08-2023

  92 - How did Iceland get its teenagers to swap the high of drugs and alcohol for the high of sports?

  Plus: Why do organizations stop learning? ...

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