Leadership Insights 30-July-2019
Leadership Insights
30 July 2019
Leadership Insights - a weekly selection of relevant ideas from the blogs of thinkers, writers and practitioners to help you Unleash Your Leadership
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BY Kate nasser (@KateNasser)
Do you respect feelings & views of others even when they seem odd or opposite yours? Are you prone to talking about how weird they are? When you have much to say about lives you never lived, you show and reinforce your bias toward your own views. Turn that around! Respect feelings of others and you can overcome your bias.
BY Dan Rockwell (@Leadershipfreak)
A ‘dingbat’ is a smart person doing something stupid. Smart people do stupid things. You forget that there’s another step on the stairs and end up breaking your favorite coffee cup. You realize that it’s useful to turn the key to ‘on’ before pulling the starter chord. The car runs out of gas because you’re trying to see how far it can go after the gauge indicates empty..
BY Susan Mazza (@SusanMazza)
As organizations have become flatter, positional leaders need to be more connected and present, at least if you hope to ignite the level of engagement that makes your team or organization thrive. And you can't simply depend on your charisma to enable you to sustain your influence with others. Because while charisma may draw people to you, it is unlikely to build trust in you..
BY Karin Hurt & David Dye (@LetsGrowLeaders)
No one understands your customer’s needs and frustrations better than your employees. When your customers are frustrated, your employees are too. But let’s be real. What’s best for the customer is often not the easiest, cost-effective or practical solution.
So how do you draw the employees closest to the customer into balanced business conversations?.
BY Jesse Lyn Stoner (@JesseLynStoner)
Have you created a vision? YOU might be excited about it but are others? Does your vision inspire, motivate and guide decision making? It’s better to test your vision now than to find out later that it’s simply a wall decoration.
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Narayan Kamath
