Leadership
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Wouldn’t it be great to always be on the same page in the pursuit of quality and excellence with your team and your organization? Those shared high standards would help keep you on track to shipping the best work possible every day. You’d be staying ahead, as Jeff Bezos put it, of “ever-rising customer expectations”…
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Last week I came across these notes from The 12 Week Year and was impressed again at how neatly that book summarizes the essentials for managing your time to achieve ambitious goals. They’re mostly direct quotes and my condensation of a section in the book titled “The Five Disciplines.” While the 12 Week Year is focused on…
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Every week, I’m in several 1-1 meetings. Biweekly with the manager I report in to, and at various frequencies and lengths with the managers and individual contributors that report in to me. When I have good time zone overlap with people I try and hold them for 30 minutes weekly. When time zone overlap is…
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‘To reckless courage in incurring dangers he united the greatest judgement when in the midst of them,’ wrote Livy. This is the difference between leadership and plain bravery. From Hannibal by Ernle Bradford and, of course, Livy. While there’s a difference between just being brave and showing leadership, this has me wondering how I might…
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You are a manager and a leader because you cannot do everything yourself, and your impact is going to increase dramatically as you work through your team. The process of achieving impact through others and increasing that leverage by growing the ability of others to execute and add to the direction you are providing is…