Corporate & Business
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Remote working
Almost 90% of project teams now include one or more workers who operate from different locations than their supervisors and teammates👩🏻💻. Nearly 80% of managers now supervise a worker or workers at remote locations!! ✍️ Many leaders face isolation because their team members are far away. These “long-distance leaders” need to use a variety of tools specifically designed to address distance leadership issues and concerns ✍️ 🔝 4️⃣ rules for working with long-distance employees are… • “Building trust at a distance doesn’t happen by accident” – Trust is evidence-based. Many leaders of remote workers ask, “How will I know they’re working if I can’t see them?” To establish trust, establish and nurture a common purpose, motives and competence between your home office and remote workers. To engender trust, be…
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Florins per week
✍️Think you’re paid what you’re worth⁉ ✍️ 🧐TWO FLORINS A WEEK… OR SIX 💵💵 Moses was a young man who worked in a grain store and earned two florins a week. Another clerk at the same warehouse, who was also named Moses, was earning six florins a week. The first Moises had been working there for a long time, but the salary was still the same: two florins a week. The fact that he received two florins while his colleague received six began to annoy him more than normal. Finally one day he complained to his boss: – 🤬 Why I earn only two florins a week whereas the other…
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Eat that Frog
“Eat that Frog” 🐸 by Brian Tracy is a classic on the shelf. It is a short 144 pages that can be read in a couple of hours giving you so many great productivity tips. Below are 5 🔝 QUOTES from this book that can easily double your productivity and a final RULE: > “If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first. This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first. It is best to tackle your most important priority at work first thing in the day. Get it done…
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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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“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
