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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Michael Lee Stallard and Katharine P. Stallard: “7 Connection Killers to Avoid” (1-17-23).
“People need to be able to express their opinions and ideas on matters that are important to them, and to know their feedback is considered when possible. When people don’t have the opportunity to contribute, it can leave them feeling disrespected, not valued, expendable, even invisible. Having no voice undermines employee engagement and human connection.”
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McKinsey Classics (July 2021)
(On “Teamwork at the top” [5-1-01]).
“[T]op teams don’t come together by magic. Improving their performance as teams should be an explicit goal realized through explicit means.
Better teams develop better strategies, implement them more successfully, and generate greater confidence among stakeholders. To learn how your top team can improve its performance, not just its strategies, read our 2001 classic ‘Teamwork at the top.'”
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The calmer we are, the stronger we are.
“[John] Sellars, quoted in “Five ways to be calm – and why it matters” (1-22-23), by Lindsay Baker:
“Calmness is essential to living a good, happy life, Marcus and his fellow Stoics would insist. This is because a disturbed or troubled mind isn’t going to be able to make sensible, rational decisions.”
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S. Chris Edmonds: “What leaders can do to stop rampant incivility” (1-24-23).
“Business leaders can’t stop rude treatment across their communities. What leaders can do, though, is ensure that incivility does not happen in their companies.
How? First leaders must define exactly what they mean by respectful treatment in their organization.”
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Frank Sonnenberg: “Live with Grace and Dignity” (1-24-23).
“Living with dignity and grace begins and ends with you. …
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Listen more…speak less. Try to find the merit in others’ arguments. Communication is a two-way street. It requires more than talking.”
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John Spence: “My Best Advice on Strategic Planning” (11-28-22).
“All strategy is the allocation of limited resources into the areas that create the most leverage for the organization.
What strategies will you not pursue? What products and services will you not offer? Are there customers you do not want to serve? What projects need to be killed?
These are tough questions, and many business leaders are afraid to ask them. But great strategic thinkers understand that they are the ones that must have the courage to figure out what the company will no longer do.”
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The themes are also present in coaching.
Stephen Joseph:
“What Happens in Therapy?
The ten ways in which therapy changes us.“
“Second, no longer driven by oughts, people begin to live life as they see it rather than how they have been instructed by others on how they ought to be.”
