honesty tagged posts
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Those Awkward Emotions
December 15, 2021
Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance
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We are settling in with my Mom and Dad who will be with us for the next four months while their house is being built. It is surprising the childhood triggers that surface in close proximity. As usual there are always great lessons. The most significant this morning is how difficult it is to embrace honesty in a culture (family) steeped in history...
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Is email the bane of nonprofit progress?
December 15, 2021
Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence
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Most nonprofit boards are risk averse so we find that the most effective way to make significant progress is to invest our own time and money to develop, test and prove service systems without any form of guarantee or initial investment required by the board. In the first year we typically lose money but once we work out all the bugs and have successful systems in place we are typically treated like valued partners and compensated fairly for continuing to provide the service...
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Creativity, Truth: 3 authors, 5 books that change everything
December 15, 2021
Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Astonishing Service, Emotional Intelligence, Spirit at Work, Training
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If you are looking for resources to reinforce creativity, encourage honesty and dispel the illusions that undermine performance, I recommend three authors and five books. The first is Daniel Pink. I have read two of Daniel’s four books A Whole New Mind and Drive. The first in particular provides powerful examples of why the “Right Brainers” of the world will be a driving force in designing the future...
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1. No news is not good news
December 15, 2021
Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence
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The longer leaders wait to tell the truth the deeper hole they will have to dig out of when they start. As human beings we are hard wired to constantly asses our environment for signs of threat.
We are not unlike the members of a baboon tribe who look towards the “alpha” every twenty to thirty seconds.
People tend to focus their attention up the hierarchy and in the absence of positive feedback imagine the worst. When we are under stress this tendency for trepidation is even greater.
Mill...
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Leaderless organizations are everywhere. If you don’t find ways to include everyone on your team, you may soon be the one sitting on the bench.
After reading a bio of one of my business heroes, Vineet Nayar I decided to read his favorite book The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom. Vineet was the CEO of HCL Technologies at the time and has been recognized as one of the top business thinkers in the world today...
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