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Part 2: The manager’s role in challenging the status quo. December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance 3 comments

Every day, well-intentioned managers work exceedingly hard to ensure efficiency of time and task. They allocate resources, define expectations and alleviate obstacles. The system is both predictable and “productive”...

Change belongs not to the catalyst but the community December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance

“There are none so blind as those who will not see.”

Contrary to popular belief this phrase popularized by Mathew Henry in his commentary on the Whole Bible (1708) is not a quote from the bible. This kind of misattribution, as I am learning from winner of the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Daniel Kahneman in Thinking Fast and Slow, is not at all uncommon. We are all thoroughly convinced of many, many connections that are not true.

One such misbelief that is shared by most p...

Get your business growing by NOT Knowing December 15, 2021 Emotional Intelligence One comment

In Employees First, Customers Second Vineet Nayar describes his first “Mirror Mirror” meeting with team members. He had recently accepted the role as CEO of a highly successful IT company that in spite of growing at 30% was falling behind industry leaders. Instead of spouting his vision for the future he said “I don’t know all the answers, in fact I probably don’t even know the right questions. The answers will have to come from you...

Change Drains, Innovation Ignites December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance No comments

Change Drains

The need for change implies we were not only doing something wrong, but that we were wrong. The feeling of being wrong has an incredibly powerful influence. In the midst of having a great day we can make one mistake and that is all we think about on our way home. We are hard wired to notice and remember anything that feels like a threat. The feeling of being wrong is tremendously threatening and that picture pulls us towards failure.

70% of organizational change initiat...

Energized by Inclusion December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance No comments

Old school leaders aspire to the belief that
“he who holds the knowledge, holds the power.”

The new paradigm is he who holds the knowledge,
and doesn’t share it, is probably guilty.

We would never consider a sporting event without goals, displaying confusing scoreboards or faceless time clocks. Instead feedback is immediate, concise, compelling, and consistently understood by everyone both in the game and on the sidelines.

goal posts In contrast, many work environments are inundated with ambigui...

innovation tagged posts

Part 2: The manager’s role in challenging the status quo.

Change belongs not to the catalyst but the community

Get your business growing by NOT Knowing

Change Drains, Innovation Ignites

Energized by Inclusion

Old school leaders aspire to the belief that “he who holds the knowledge, holds the power.”

The new paradigm is he who holds the knowledge, and doesn’t share it, is probably guilty.

Old school leaders aspire to the belief that
“he who holds the knowledge, holds the power.”

The new paradigm is he who holds the knowledge,
and doesn’t share it, is probably guilty.