How to Stop Micromanaging Your Team – Part 3
When I joined a new company, I was introduced to the senior manager of the department during the first few days of the onboarding process. One of the things I learned from him was: “Once you’ve learned how I like to work, then you’ll settle in well.”
What he was saying was: “This is how I like to work and how I like to do things. Learn to be like me, and you’ll fit in well.”
Creating a Collaborative Culture – Part 2
What's the best way to see a person's true character? Take a look at how they work, act, and respond under pressure. It’s the same for a company. One of the best ways to see company culture is to watch how it performs under pressure. The COVID pandemic gave us no better opportunity to see both character and culture under intense pressure...
Creating a Collaborative Culture – Part 1
In my consulting work, I’ve seen firsthand how people are becoming increasingly intolerant of companies without a collaborative culture.
The problem is, an organisation’s culture is often invisible but deeply impactful.
So, let’s take a closer look at corporate culture and explore how we as leaders can shape it to create stronger, more connected teams.
Making decisions in the dim light of incomplete information
When I came back to the bike sheds to cycle home at the end of the day, of course, it had gone. My bike had gone. Forever. And I didn’t get a replacement for several years; my parents decided it would teach me a valuable lesson, and it did!
What did a conductor ever do for us?
What did a conductor ever do for us? Well, for me, exploring what a conductor does provides a really helpful model to see leadership . By the time a piece is ready to perform the hard work has already been done: seeing over the horizon, describing what’s on the horizon, and getting to the horizon.
Intentional Neglect, and Productivity
Do you know where you’re going to?Well, everyone ends up somewhere, but few people end up somewhere on purpose! Will you?
Time, and Life the Universe and Everything
We could consider each day to be like a fresh new cheque (or a new check in US currency) in a chequebook, and we can choose the value to write on that cheque. We can choose to have a lazy day and write a value of £10 for the day, or we can choose to have a really productive day and write £1,000 for the day.
Mind the gap
In leadership terms, it’s important to know where you’re going to, to define where you want to end up. Sometimes this is really quite obvious. When Kennedy stated “We choose to go to the Moon in this decade” on September 12 1962 it was really quite obvious where there was, and where here was. There was the moon, and here was the earth.If we don’t know where we are, we’ll not be able to chart the course to where we want to get to ...