Category: Leadership skills
The danger of short term thinking
Short-term thinking dominates in management thinking. There is a serious danger of sensing changes too late if there is too much focus on the short term. This series of articles explores the danger of short-term thinking, covering several example patterns that could occur at your organization as well.
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Employee Empowerment demystified Part II
Most empowerment programs aren’t empowerment at all if a manager gives up some authority only he can give. So let’s start the other way around: Reverse delegation assumes an employees can take any decision except for what he doesn’t feel like and what has been set as constraints. So how do we do this?
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Turn the ship around! David Marquet
Turn the ship around! is the amazing and inspiring true story of nuclear submarine commander David Marquet and his crew’s journey to completely turn around the style of leadership on board of the Sante Fe. The change is from what he calls a leader-follower model to a leader-leader model.
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Embrace the Cynics
When managing change we tend to give a lot of attention to our champions. And for good reason. We also spend a lot of energy persuading the ones that are sitting on the fence. And we even pay attention to the saboteurs. But we tend to ignore the cynics. Why? The cynic might proof to be a mighty ally.
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Escape the Tyranny of the Urgent
There are always urgent things to do. You know you should work on some longer-term tasks too, but every time something more urgent pops up. You promise yourself that after this one you will absolutely take on this longer-term task. But then the next urgent issue pops up. Sound’s familiar? What to do?
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Freedom, Inc – Brian M. Carney, Isaac Getz
Information about this book: Authors: Brian M. Carney and Isaac Getz Publication date: 2009....
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The danger of stability
Most organizations nowadays know that the world around them changes fast. Yet for many organizations, stability is still the default state. Using methods aimed at stability can be dangerous. We tend to focus on doing things right, where we should focus on doing the right things.
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How to create servant leaders?
During a training I gave, one of the participants had a question how to support management to change their role towards servant leadership. How can we motivate middle management to change? The specific question was: “If I am going to lose control by delegating authority, what do I get back for it?”
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From Silos to Value Streams
What I do find fascinating is why most large organizations seem to be unwilling or unable to change their silo structure. Whatever the reasons, in this article we will explore some practical ways to dampen the negative effects of silos, and we provide some ways to break them down once and for all.
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If your only tool is a hammer…
The environment of organizations changes at an increasingly fast pace. Complexity and uncertainty are on the rise. But the set of tools that management uses to manage and design their organizations, changes very slowly. There is an increasing mismatch between the tools used and the problems of organizations.
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