Two strong recommendations if you are into podcasts and leadership. The Look and Sound of Leadership, by Tom Henschel. Coaching for Leaders, by Dave Stachowiak. They ship respectively monthly and weekly, and they are full of interesting insights and suggestions on how to be a modern leader. If you want to start from somewhere, this … Continue reading Listening and asking
Category: culture
Patience
Despite common belief, patience is not a passive quality. Patience means being committed. Devotion and dedication are necessary to stay in a situation long enough, to make the uncomfortable feel comfortable, to push away the instict of moving on to something else that might look more appealing in the moment. A patient person might look … Continue reading Patience
Beyond up and more
Is up the only way? Is more the only mean to advance? Certainly, that is the popular view. When you are with a company, you figure what your next step would be in terms of career advancement and salary increase. Companies tend to reward with promotions and bigger paychecks their best performers or people with … Continue reading Beyond up and more
Recognition
There's incredible value in emancipating from the need of recognition. We all want our work to be acknowledged, appreciated, rewarded. And yet, when doing that, we shift the focus of the work itself on something that is beyond our control. We set ourselves up for failure. Others often do not praise our efforts and results, … Continue reading Recognition
Tools
When a company implements a new tool, that is no guarantee the tool is going to fix the issue it was hired to address. Actually, in most cases, it is quite the opposite. A tool is merely a helper, enabling you to do something. It has very little to do with the definition of what … Continue reading Tools
It depends
At some point, we started seeing every situation as a binary option. Win or loose. Good or bad. Give or take. Growth or irrelevancy. With or against me. And so on. That's only a narrow interpretation of how things are. One, perhaps, that makes it easier for us to interpret the complexity of situations right … Continue reading It depends
Tasks you don’t like
The way you deal with a task you don't want to do greatly defines how you approach change. You can refuse to do it, as you don't want. Set out to seek another task, another job, another purpose. And yet, despite the continuos search, you favour the status quo. Your status quo. No big changes … Continue reading Tasks you don’t like
