‘Culture eats strategy for breakfast’ it is said. When you think of creativity, you often think of ways to promote it! This post looks at the many ways that your organizations culture can prevent it from ever happening.
Communicate the importance of attendance, participation, and punctuality. If key staff members don’t show up, cancel the meeting. If their absence has been approved in advance, have them delegate their decision-making responsibility to someone else in the meeting. Make sure all agenda items are aligned with your strategic plans, vision, mission, objectives, strategies, and actions. [...]
30 Meeting Rules That Work We operate under the assumption that everyone’s participation and presence in meetings is important. We want to create a culture and community where time is not wasted, opinions are shared freely and honestly, individuals are treated with respect, risk taking and open-mindedness are valued, and wise decisions are made. Unity [...]
Today I was catching up with a dear friend, Bernie Sucher, who lives in Russia and he shared with me an amazing program modeled after Teach for America. It is called Venture for America. It was founded by Andrew Yang who is the current president of the organization. Take a look and see if your [...]
Leaders and subordinates telegraph their position of authority based on the e-mail language they use, according to Eric Gilbert, an assistant professor at Georgia Tech. He analyzed more than 500,000 e-mails from Enron employees and made some interesting discoveries. First, Gilbert weeded out e-mails that might be tainted by Enron’s collapse/SEC investigation and other e-mails [...]
As a leader, you know the importance of hiring good people (as well as the cost of making poor hires), so you lay out role and responsibilities for each position, using very specific and explicit expectations. You modify job descriptions to address past oversights or new circumstances. And yet, six months or a year after [...]
Lots of leaders espouse the value of teamwork, but the quality and quantity of work that teams generate depends a lot on how teams are constructed and evaluated. In 1913, Max Ringelmann discovered that men pulled harder on a rope when they were alone than when they were in the group. The more people in [...]
Asking questions is critical to great leadership. Remembering to ask questions can be difficult for new leaders. If you are struggling with asking questions, try this acronym, APPLE! Ask the right question. Right questions are open-ended and encouraging. They help others imagine new solutions. Pause after you ask the question. Accept silence, even if it’s [...]
Everett Rogers came up with the Diffusion of Innovation model, which explains why and how a meme can move through a social system. Memes are generated by Innovators, and require a committed group of risk-taking Early Adaptors to propel them forward. The Early Majority are the next critical group needed for buy-in; they want to [...]
Intelligence, for leaders, can be more of an impediment than an asset. It’s an asset if you use it to elevate others. It’s an impediment if you assume that it authorizes you to make as many decisions as you can. If you’re the smartest person in the room (or think that you are), you may [...]
Gary Carter, COO of the company that produces “American Idol,” says that producers who break the rules do so at their own peril. He recalled the time Simon Cowell brought back past contestants that lost for another chance in the last round of the contest–alienating lots of contestants and audience members in the process. According to [...]
Many organizations are finding it difficult to coordinate social media enterprise wide, Radian6 has introduced a listening post and interaction product that may change the game for your organization!
When you think of your business are you acting as the smartest person in the room or are you asking your customers what they need. Watch this video to get some insight into the difference.
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