How Well Do You Delegate?
Early in every Leadership Program group, we spend some time talking about delegation. Today’s Tuesday Reading, “How Well Do You Delegate?” from the Mind Tools website, brings us all back to this topic.
Why Leaders Need People Skills
Today’s Tuesday Reading is John Baldoni’s column “Why Leaders Need People Skills”. This is a familiar topic to alumni of the IT Leaders Program but I thought that we could all benefit from Bald
Six Tips for Fessing Up to Your Mistakes
This week’s Tuesday Reading is “Six Tips for Fessing Up to Your Mistakes" by Deborah Brown-Volkman, president of Surpass Your Dreams, a career, life, and mentor coaching company.
If you haven’t made a mistake you can pass this week’s reading. But, somehow, I think you may find the column interesting. We all mistakes and it is supremely important that we take responsibility for the mistakes we make. Deborah suggests that fessing up involves six steps:
The Curse Of The Eternally Urgent
A number of you are fans of David Allen and follow many of the recommendations in his book, “Getting Things Done.” Our reading this week is “The Curse Of The Eternally Urgent” which you will find at <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-allen/the-curse-of-the-eternall_b_96512.html>.
The Power of the Humble Checklist
In my reading not long ago I found a pointer to a short piece by Sean Silverthorne – "The Power of the Humble Checklist". As the author points out, and as I will confirm, having a standard checklist for complex, but nevertheless, routine tasks – e.g., the pilot’s pre-flight checklist or the hospital’s safe-surgery checklist – is lifesaving and invaluable.
The Leader of the Future
We all remember Ron Heifetz from the first day of the IT Leaders Program. There we learned about "adaptive leadership," “giving work back to the workers,” and about “getting up on the balcony.”
Today’s reading “The Leader of the Future” reports on a series of 2007 conversations that William Taylor, a founding editor of Fast Company, had with Heifetz. In the conversations, Heifetz offered ideas, advice, and techniques for leaders of the future. The conversations are structured around four topics:
Writing sensible email messages
Over the past few weeks I’ve seen a number of pieces about how email is disruptive, how some companies are suggesting ways to that staff might step away from the constant flow of interruptions, how IM, blogs, and wikis can be effective in reducing your email load, etc. So, there seems to be even more concern about how our "always on" culture may be having negative impacts on our work as well as the other facets of our life.
Probing the Periphery: Mastering Vigilant Leadership
Over the past week or so, it has seemed that everywhere I turned I ran across an article or a book with leadership or leader in the title: Vigilant Leadership, Adaptive Leadership, the Leader of the Future, Better Leadership, and Total Leadership. Today's piece, Mark Hanna's "Probing the Periphery: Mastering Vigilant Leadership" is from the June 2008 issue of the Wharton Leadership Digest.
Memo to a Young Leader
This week, I want to share with you "Memo to a Young Leader" by William Taylor, co-founder of Fast Company and thinker, writer, and entrepreneur. In this piece, which appeared in the May 8, 2008 issue of BusinessWeek, he asks five questions that you need solid answers for to be an inspiring leader.
1. Why should great people want to work with you?
The Hiring Manager Interviews: Harvard Business School's CIO Builds Trust and Respect Among His IT Staff by Involving Them in His Hiring Process
Today's reading is "The Hiring Manager Interviews: Harvard Business School's CIO Builds Trust and Respect Among His IT Staff by Involving Them in His Hiring Process" which you can find at