vision

Managerial challenge 101 – be the role or let the role be you !

Responsibility

Tester : “Careful with that checkin Eugene….”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqV_ExWj-bw

Manage the spolight

As a leader,you essentially should be managing the spotlight (and not be in it)

Directing it on the right people,at the right time

river trout

why only aim to keep your head above the water

why only create ripples,when you can make waves

why only float,when you can synchronize a swim

Simplify to empower

I think

That the best method to empower your team,is not to just ‘get out of their way’

But to simplify and then get out of their way.

Simplify goals and simplify intentions behind those goals.

Then,you will get persuasion,you will get follower ship,you will get commitment.

Self portrait

You can damage control everything as a leader except being selfish or a hypocrite

Impacts of both are never immediate,always accumulative

Your beliefs and mindset is your time stamp,your legacy on the bunch.

Practice and put self,last

A nursery

There are parallels,that you can draw with a leader’s job being similar to a gardener.

Planting the seeds,nurturing the sprouted ones and preventing the over grown from strangulating themselves with their own vine.

Except that you dont operate in a nice,humidity controlled greenhouse environment but out in the open plains,

Amongst all the elements and the wild things,up against the challenges that they pose.

Sound decisions,how?

Blunt your biases

Rinse your basis

Crystal your context

Wear your reasons

Flaunt with trade offs

PM 1.0 vs PM 2.0

1.0 –> “if you have them by the balls,their hearts and minds will follow”

2.0 –> “make them in charge of their own balls”

Enable responsibility and accountability will follow…

Leadership series – Persuasion

How ?

Ground up
Part of whole
Dog food
Patient
Respected
Example
Ring fence
Empathy
Compassion
Forgiveness
Actions (no chatter)
Vision