Leadership
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Teaming
According to Harvard professor Amy Edmonson, dynamic work environments and large-scale challenges require “teaming”: the flexibility to collaborate in the moment with an ever-changing roster of professionals. > “Teaming” is collaborating “on the fly” across disciplines and distance and with an ever-changing roster of experts. > By contrast, teamwork involves practice and planning amid a relatively small, fixed group of people. > Teamwork outperforms teaming but isn’t always an option. Many projects are fast-paced, unpredictable and complex – like the 2010 rescue of 33 trapped Chilean miners. >>> Successful teaming builds on three qualities: humble leadership, intellectual curiosity and comfort in risk taking <<
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Collaboration
Collaboration expert Gretchen Anderson explains in practical terms how collaboration works, what it can accomplish, how to organize collaborative teams and which common collaboration pitfalls to avoid. Companies suffer when colleagues can’t get together effectively to develop smart solutions to problems. Collaboration provides an opportunity to work with groups of people with diverse backgrounds and varied points of view! *5 Take-Aways from this book*: 1. Collaborations won’t work without MUTUAL TRUST. 2. Collaborations need defined objectives. 3. When it comes to starting a collaboration, having more people involved is better. Eventually, reduce the number of participants to a core group. 4. Effective collaborations require planning and a well-defined structure. 5. In any collaboration, one person should…
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Resilient
Bob Duggan talks about “Core Practices” in his book Resilient Leadership 2.0 to stay calm and clarity in anxious times. Among others, here you are my top 5: · “Get on the balcony” Get a complete overview of what is taking place around you. · “Cultivate a curious mind-set” Curiosity and anxiety are antithetical. As you seek answers, knowledge about your co-workers and their processes your anxiety diminishes. · “Be separate yet stay connected” Never keep a cold distance from your co-workers, but don’t push for unnecessary intimacy. Seek a healthy emotional balance. · “Email mindfully” You can’t retract a sent email. Before you hit send, carefully consider its content…
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“What” is an easy question to answer
𝕎hen Risto Siilasmaa became ☎️ Nokia’s chairman, the company was a candidate for bankruptcy 📉 In four years, he reinvented it as a profitable corporation💰 Siilasmaa developed the concept of “ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP”📝 Her useful principles for all leaders: ✔︎ “Hold yourself ACCOUNTABLE”. 🎖Your position must mean more than your paycheck.✔︎ “FACE FACTS” – ❝No news is bad news. Bad news is good news. And good news is no news.❞✔︎ “Be PERSISTENT” – Regardless of the difficulties, never give up 💪🏻✔︎ “MANAGE RISKS” Deal with the risk with your eyes open wide 👀✔︎ “Be a LEARNING ADDICT” (My favorite one) You can learn from everything that happens to you 🤓✔︎ “Maintain an UNWAVERING…
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Liderazgo
“El liderazgo es la habilidad de absorber incertidumbre para que otros puedan seguir caminando.” Peter Drucker vía Brian Underhill
