Thursday, June 26, 2014
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Positive Leadership: The Nature of Leadership
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Driven by the belief that the traditional management model—built to serve control-obsessed managers rather than to support customer-obsessed employees—was broken, Vineet launched a series of experiments in promoting transparency, opening up the realm of strategy to all employees, and reversing accountability so managers served frontline employees.
During his tenure, HCLT grew from 30,000 to 85,000 employees and from $750 million to $6.3 billion in revenues. In this keynote from the inaugural MIX Mashup, Vineet unpacks his adventures in inverting the pyramid and distributing the work of leadership. It’s a master class in reinventing a large, traditional organisation and a short course in how to launch a management experiment.
Monday, June 16, 2014
Monday, June 09, 2014
Positive Leadership: How Great Firms Motivate Employees
Research shows that workers who are actively disengaged
outnumber their more motivated colleagues by 2 to 1.
The good news is that the
companies that defy this trend do similar things – which you can use to build a
more spirited workforce.
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Hire stellar HR people. The best HR people have
a gift for influencing, teaching, and holding executives accountable. They're
crucial guides for leaders and managers trying to develop employees.
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Use straightforward performance management
systems. Companies with the highest engagement levels use recognition to
develop employees and encourage them to reach their highest potential.
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Don't pursue engagement for its own sake. It's
increasingly possible to measure and track engagement, but don't start
"managing to the metric." Keep your eyes on the business goals that
greater engagement can help you achieve.
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Friday, May 16, 2014
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Positive Leadership: Athletic Motivation
Whether we can understand their drive is one thing, but we can all admire their commitment.
How they stay motivated is something we can all learn from.
1. Talk through the stress – A 1993 study of athletes identified 158 unique strategies for coping with stress. The most common (used by 76 percent of interviewees) was ‘rational thinking and self-talk’. You've got to learn to coach your mind to work through the tough times and think like a winner.
2. It’s all for love – You don’t persevere for the money. Most, even those at a national level, aren’t even duly compensated. It is the sheer love of sport that motivates them to train and play again and again - and again.
3. Optimism – In a study of Commonwealth and Olympic athletes, “having an unshakeable belief in your ability to achieve competition goals” was a common definition of mental toughness. You need to believe that you have it within you to be the best.
4. Anticipation - Our brains are built with an insular cortex, the more finely tuned it is the better we are at anticipating pressures and adapt to these quickly. It also gets better with practice.
5. Good support – Whether it’s a coach, a parent, a partner or a boss, having solid support is the bedrock of success.
6. Mindful - It’s not only being aware of what you’re doing, but how you’re feeling, how you’re breathing and accepting these without judgement.
7. Thinking ahead – Keep your eye on the prize. Create short term goals to reach long term goals. Small victories keep you motivated to continue improvement.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Monday, April 28, 2014
Friday, April 25, 2014
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Monday, April 21, 2014
Friday, April 18, 2014
Positive Leadership: Easter Message
Even before Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments,
Judeo-Christian tradition stressed the importance of having a set of overarching
values embedded within the financial system if we wish to have a
sustainable market economy.
This cannot just be codified in the hope that controls will compel
wider ethical behaviour. It won’t. Ethics have to be taught as well as caught.
What
the recent Co-op debacle in the UK reminded us (appropriate for an Easter reflection) is that we
all fall short of the mark.
So,
while we are all capable of acting on the prompting of our consciences but we
also need to practise a new calibration, away from legacy laissez-faire,
moral setting and towards an enlightened sustainable self-interest.
The key message of Easter is that good can come out of bad situations.
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Positive Leadership: The Little Book of IDEO
The result is a slim hardcover called The Little Book of IDEO.
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Monday, April 14, 2014
Positive Leadership: The Coaching Payoff
Friday, April 11, 2014
Positive Leadership: More is Less
Greg McKeown saw first-hand how success can
lead straight to professional and personal failure, during his career
evaluating and coaching Silicon Valley executives.
The heart of the problem, he
says, is the insidious idea that we can do it all. As entrepreneurs and
executives find success, they're often overwhelmed by expectations and options,
and end up losing the single-minded focus that made them successful in the
first place.
Taking inspiration from legendary designer Dieter Ram's philosophy
of "less but better", McKeown outlines an antidote in his book
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, which features practical tips on
how to figure out what's most important, eliminate the trivial, and establish
routines for effortless execution.
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