What makes a business agile, what having a “growth mindset” really means, learn to unlearn for success and more.
Thank you for reading my latest leadership newsletter. In my work as an advisor, coach and consultant to ambitious and leading boards, CEO’s, executives and teams, I come across important developments and people that are shaping the future of business and leadership. Every week I share my round-up of interesting stories so you can find the most important leadership and business thinking. I hope you enjoy them! If you haven’t already, feel free to follow me on LinkedIn or Twitter. Happy reading!
Why Companies Do “Innovation Theater” Instead of Actual Innovation
As organizations grow, they begin to prioritize process over product. That impedes real innovation. Instead, what organizations need is a culture, mindset, and process to guide the organization’s efforts to achieve real innovations.
5 Key Components of Every Successful Business Leadership Framework
Every business leader needs help generating engagement, loyalty, and bottom-line success. Every business leader struggles with the challenges of leadership and is constantly honing their formula for success.
Burnout Is About More Than Long Hours
Instead of thinking about ways to prevent burnout, invert the question. Ask how you can fill your employees with energy, creativity, excitement, and fulfilment.
What Having a “Growth Mindset” Actually Means
Leaders who believe their talents can be developed (through hard work, good strategies, and input from others) have a growth mindset. They tend to achieve more than those with a more fixed mindset (those who believe their talents are innate gifts).
What Makes a Business Agile? And How Can You Achieve It?
Agility is the ability to move quickly and easily, overcoming obstacles in a nimble, arguably graceful way. In the business context, agility is a similar quality, allowing a business to make changes and decisions quickly.
Learning is how you evolve. Unlearning is how you keep up as the world evolves – Adam Grant
Success today means being able to manage complexity while actively balancing shorter- versus longer-term decisions. It’s a tough balancing act, especially as responding effectively often asks us to unlearn much of what comprised the reflex responses of good leaders in simpler times.
The Business of Harnessing the Power of Social Media
As business owners and entrepreneurs looking to harness the power of social media in a shifting digital landscape. They will need to have an excellent grasp of social media fundamentals and keep up with evolving social media trends.
Top-down leadership is outdated and counterproductive
By focusing too much on control and end goals, and not enough on their people, leaders are making it more difficult to achieve their own desired outcomes. The key, then, is to help people feel purposeful, motivated, and energized so they can bring their best selves to work.
4 clueless ways companies are responding to workers in crisis
Work still starts on time every day, but business is not as usual. And it’s time to stop pretending that it is. A new survey breaks down how even well-meaning organizations are dropping the ball during COVID-19.
Adam Grant posted on Twitter recently about an open mind being more committed to your curiosity than to your convictions. The goal of learning is not to shield old views against new facts. It’s to revise old views to incorporate new facts. Ideas are possibilities to explore, not certainties to defend. Worth sharing as a remember to us all.
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