Leadership Insights
16-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 Rita McGRATH (@rgmcgrath)
While there are some true barriers to innovations—rules, regulations, laws of physics—by and large, the biggest roadblocks are the things we do to ourselves. Now, they’re usually done for very good reasons—they serve the core business, perhaps they were important at one point in time, or there was some sort of technological constraint. But what we don’t do enough of is ask ourselves: Are these things still relevant? Or is it actually time to get rid of them?
BY Subir Chowdhury (@subirchowdhury)
Real listening involves hearing. Observing and understanding the problem is too. Many people just pretend to listen [...] Smart and accomplished people know what they don’t know. They listen, and if they still don’t understand they speak up and ask questions.
BY Scott Savage (@scottsavagelive)
Many of us avoid the reflection vacation often brings because it means having to face things we don’t want to face. While there’s value to consultants, coaches, books, and conferences, I think a lot of us have the answers we’re looking for already inside – we just need to unearth them.
BY Paul Keijzer (@Paul_Keijzer)
Overcoming objections isn’t just for salespeople. If you want to influence others, you must be able to overcome objections. There are four objections leaders hear regularly. Once you have a basic strategy, you will become more agile and successful influencing others past those objections.
BY Sandy Ogg (@TalentToValue)
It should be obvious that you don’t expect people to take action on the things you say and the stuff you share unless you explicitly ask for action. Yeah, it may be obvious to you, but it’s likely not obvious to them. Experience shows again and again that even senior executives are so motivated to please their boss that they will often spring into action at the slightest prompt. As a result, there’s a lot of needless churn in a lot of organizations.
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Narayan Kamath
