Each week I collect the resources related to leadership I shared on social media the prior week, with the accompanying quotations.
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Rodger Dean Duncan:
“Want To Be A Better Leader? Ask Better Questions” (4-21-23).
“No one understands the power of good questions more than Michael J. Marquardt and Bob Tiede, authors of Leading With Questions: How Leaders Discover Powerful Answers by Knowing How and What to Ask [3rd edition, 2023].
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‘Leaders need to model and demonstrate the importance of asking questions,’ Marquardt says. ‘They should ask questions at meetings, in one-on-one conversations, in memos to staff. In addition, they should encourage people to ask questions of them.'”
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Frank Sonnenberg:
“Are You Trying Too Hard to Look Good?” (5-31-22).
“At the end of the day, the path you choose should never be determined by the number of people who say or believe something; you must have the courage and conviction to question conventional wisdom and do what’s right.”
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Juliana Stancampiano:
“It’s Time to Rethink Middle Management” (4-25-23).
“[G]ood middle managers inspire employees, minimize confusion and roadblocks, and act as a buffer to senior management. For the average worker, their manager is more important to their success and well-being than the CEO!”
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Ken Blanchard:
“Timeless Principle #1: Leadership Is a Partnership” (4-26-23).
“When leaders adopt a partnership mindset, they realize that they and their direct reports play key parts on the same team. Rather than leading through control, they gain people’s trust and work together to achieve success on the goals they are both responsible for. This partnership approach leads to impressive results that are simply not possible when all of the authority has moved up the hierarchy and leaders shoulder all the responsibility for success.”
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Susan Fowler:
“Why keep trying to motivate people when you can’t?” (4-26-23).
“You can’t motivate people, but your leadership is critical to the type of motivation people experience. ….
When you develop the capacity to encourage choice, deepen connection and build competence, you dramatically improve the likelihood that people will achieve their goals for the right reasons and experience well-being in their pursuit.”
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Joel Trammell:
“How Mature Is Your Organization? Use This Model to Find Out”
(4-26-23).
“CEO Responsibility #3: Build the Culture.
The CEO must constantly observe and manage for the culture he or she wants–the set of shared attitudes, goals, behaviors, and values that characterize the group.
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Level 5: Predictable. This mission of the organization comes first in this culture characterized by a set of shared values across the workforce.”
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Nathan Furr, INSEAD:
“Intellectual Honesty Is Critical for Innovation” (4-27-23).
“Psychological safety and intellectual honesty can sometimes work against each other. The challenge for leaders is to promote candid debate that is focused on the problems the team needs to solve and defuse interpersonal conflict. By doing so, they can nurture a culture that leads to higher performance.”
