Race-horse and cart-horse You’ve seen it before. A bright student gets away with minor misdemeanors. A driver with a clean track record gets away with the odd violation. A talented employee gets a longer rope.I call this the race-horse vs cart-horse syndrome. Whether it is in a large family, your team at work or even …
Planning & Vision Let me tell you the story of the packing division of a cement packing plant. It consists of ten packing lines, each one staffed with about 20 union workers and their job is to pack all the cement into sacks, boxes and cartons and move it along. This is a three-shift job …
Performance As an effective leader you will become responsible for the actions of a number of team-members. Since each person is unique, you will need to find different ways and styles in dealing with the different personalities that make up your team. As you look at the pool of resources that are available to you and …
Impactful writing Effective leaders write well. A well-written piece exhibits clear thinking on the part of the author. If your thinking is flawed, muddled or incomplete, this will surely show up in your writing. Therefore it is important for effective leaders to practice impactful writing. A well-written passage possesses the following characteristics: a. It is …
Develop deep reading habits Effective leaders read. They read a lot. If you aspire to become a leader, you should start reading….. a lot. And I want you to develop what I call “deep reading”. Let me first explain what is NOT deep reading. My dad was an avid collector of books, and would buy …
Comfort with Ambiguity One of the advanced skills of a leader is the ability to handle ambiguity. Ambiguity is often confused with complexity or vagueness. Some assignments, projects or initiatives are huge, daunting and complex. Examples are company strategy (where should RIMM, maker of Blackberry phone concentrate and how do they turn the company around) …
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