Today’s reading is alternately titled “Five Lessons We Can Learn from Toyota”. In this piece Roberta Chinsky Matuson, founder of Human Resource Solutions, reflects on how you rebuild trust after you’ve made huge mistakes. She provides five lessons that can be learned from Toyota’s current problems:
1. When you make a mistake, own it the moment you realize something is not right. If you are honest, from that first moment, you will likely be forgiven.
Recently Linkage published a short piece by Marshall Goldsmith – “When I Get Better at ...” A Simple Exercise for Changing a Behavior to Achieve Results <http://bit.ly/aUrU3M> – which is this week’s reading.
This weeks Tuesday Reading “Getting You and Your Boss on the Same Communication Wavelength” comes to us from John Baldoni’s FastCompany blog and can be found at <http://bit.ly/6PbJvE>
Today’s reading is – IT Hiring: How Thomson Reuters’ CIO Identifies Cultural Fit – a recent piece appearing in the CIO newsletter. It features an interview of Kelli Crane, senior vice president and CIO of Thomson Reuters by Beth Ehrgott.
Terry Gray, IT Leaders Program alumnus from the University of Washington, suggested today’s reading, “How To Rise Fast At Work: A True Story”. Terry thought that the piece might be of interest to the leaders community. And, I agree.
In this Forbes.com piece, its author Avril David talks about two acquaintances – whom he calls Mike and Ted – and their respective, different approaches to their first job, analyst at a small investment firm.
Today’s reading, “The Power of Trust: A Steel Cable”, comes to us from the Mindtools Newsletter. The author is Bruna Martinuzzi, the founder and president of a Canadian consulting company that focuses on emotional intelligence, leadership, and presentation skills training.
MIT’s Leadership Center <http://mitleadership.mit.edu/> hosted Anne Mulcahy, then Xerox’s Chairman and CEO at the Sloan School’s Dean’s Innovative Leader Series in November 2006. A synopsis of her remarks will be found at <http://mitleadership.mit.edu/
If you are leading a change initiative, then you must be an influencer for that initiative to be successful. Yet studies have shown that only one in five leaders are able to influence positive change in a way that it lasts. What’s going on?
Today’s reading is “The Influencers: The Top Five Reasons Leaders Lack Influence”. In this piece, Ron McMillan and Joseph Grenny, the authors who also wrote “Influencer: The Power to Change Anything,” provide five reasons why leaders lack influence:
Every time you begin a change endeavor, it’s quite natural to ask “am I prepared and ready?” Is my team/organization prepared and ready? Are the stakeholders ready?
Today’s Reading is Preston Cline’s ”Leadership Lessons from Mt. Kilimanjaro“ which appeared in the November-December issue of the Wharton Leadership Digest <http://leadership.wharton.upenn.edu/digest/index.shtml> and is reproduced below by permission.