Most people have a fairly inaccurate sense of their own talents, especially when the question is how good they are in comparison to other people. It is important to assess leaders because a standardised assessment can tell you where your best talent would stack up against other leaders.
Should some topics be off-limits in the workplace? Some companies have started putting restrictions on what can and cannot be discussed at the workplace. Muzzling the employees may have unintended consequences.
To get the top 1% talent, the candidate experience has to be designed to attract the top 1%. These are people who are chased by head-hunters. You can't hire them. They have to want to work for you. Experiences create a pull that we cannot resist.
Saul Kaplan founder of Business Innovation Factory appeared as a guest on my show. I asked him if Business Innovation FACTORY (his organisation) proves that innovation needs scale! He talks about the 3 superpowers needed. Enjoy
Do you recall your childhood memories? Of course you do. But then how do you know that those memories are accurate? Do you have a photograph to prove it? Then your mind may be playing tricks.
What did you learn this week? That was Estelle Metayer who goes by the twitter handle @Competia. She was hosting a Clubhouse room that had music composer Philip Sheppard - on twitter as @PhilipSheppard (see his website to learn more) and me as the moderators. That question sparked off a storm of ideas in the room.
On 1 Jan 2021 I invited standup comedian PapaCJ for a live chat. What follows is much more than a simple Q&A
I was once talking to the founder of a startup who wanted to build the culture of Google in his firm. He wanted to benchmark the ‘best practices’ of Google’s culture of innovation and that is how he implemented this policy in his 50-person startup. Every employee in that tiny startup had to work on a personal project. Two months later a few employees came to the founder and asked for permission to work from home so that they could work together undisturbed on a secret project they had come up with.
It is the first taste of discretionary power one experiences very early in career. It is the first taste of responsibility for the success of others beyond one’s own self. It is the first opportunity to help and coach others to scale up and reach the desired goals. The leader’s role is to help the team achieve synergy not just remain the sum total of everyone’s results. To do that, the person managing a team must juggle three perspectives:
