The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume
Author: Josh Kaufman
Category: Uncategorised
Give it five minutes, by Jason Fried
“He said ‘Man, give it five minutes.’ I asked him what he meant by that? He said, it’s fine to disagree, it’s fine to push back, it’s great to have strong opinions and beliefs, but give my ideas some time to set in before you’re sure you want to argue against them. ‘Five minutes’ represented ‘think’, not react.”
Connect, then lead
Great article on warmth and competence.
“Prioritizing warmth helps you connect immediately with those around you, demonstrating that you hear them, understand them, and can be trusted by them.”
An article by Amy J.C. Cuddy, Matthew Kohut and John Neffinger.
Book: The Alliance – Managing talent in the networked age
“These individuals, flexible, creative, and with a bias toward action, thrive when they’re on a specific “tour of duty”- when they have a mission that’s mutually beneficial to employee and company that can be completed in a realistic period of time.”
Book: The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age
Author: Reid Hoffman
Publisher: Harvard Business Review
Treat my team
Lovely activities to treat your team, from wine tasting to puppy delivery. Hard choice!
How to haggle like your old man, by Tyler Tervooren
Triggers
“Frank, we had a really good quarter. We shipped the update, we’re solidly into the next major release and I’d like to give you a $5k raise.”
“I quit.”
Excellent article about what triggers people in workplace.
Book: Leadership, plain and simple (Financial Times Series)
Book: Leadership: plain and simple
Author: Steve Radcliffe
Publisher: Financial Times
Book: Leadership and the one minute manager
Leadership and the one minute manager
Author: Kenneth Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi and Drea Zigarmi
The 8-step process for leading change, by Dr. John Kotter
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- Establishing a sense of urgency
- Creating the guiding coalition
- Developing a change vision
- Communicating the vision for buy-in
- Empowering broad-based action
- Generating short-term wins
- Never letting up
- Incorporating changes into the culture
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