Senior Team Conflict
Regular readers of my blog should be aware that I’m a big fan of Patrick Lencioni’s writing. Perhaps his most famous book is The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, and I especially like it because of the central role conflict ...
Category: Leadership
Developing Your Mind
Ben Martin suggests playing chess as a way to develop integrative thinking (becoming more aware of how one move will play out three or four moves later). Good suggestion, Ben! So far, I have come up with two things that ...
Learning to Think
More from Roger Martin about how successful leaders think. He argues that when faced with a problem or challenge, leaders work through four steps: Determining salience Analyzing causality Envisioning the decision archite ...
How Successful Leaders Think
I hate it when the next month’s HBR comes out before I’ve read the good articles in this month’s! So I’m busy reading these days. The one article that is a “can’t miss” in the June edition is by Roger Martin, titled “How ...
Leadership and Intention
Ben Martin made a very brief post a while ago about becoming a leader by simply being yourself. It sparked an interesting comment thread, in which I make several points. The bulk of my part of the discussion was distingu ...
You Don't Always Have to be Right
Another article in Associations Now this month covers a series of “mindsets” that futurist John Naisbitt is writing about. They are lenses for interpreting the world, and he recommends leaders use many of them, rather th ...
You Don’t Always Have to be Right
Another article in Associations Now this month covers a series of “mindsets” that futurist John Naisbitt is writing about. They are lenses for interpreting the world, and he recommends leaders use many of them, rather th ...
The Next Level of Teambuilding
Scott Briscoe in Associations Now interviewed Deborah Ancona, an MIT Management professor, who has a new book out about teams. I had heard of Ancona only in an article in HBR about distributed leadership, but I really li ...
Mood and Creativity
Lisa Junker (ASAE & The Center staff and Acronym blogger) commented on my last post about the “inner work life” article in HBR, pointing to another specific point in the article:I was especially interested in Amabile ...
Getting Past the Easy Part
Thanks to Chris Bailey for linking to my recent post quoting the poet David Whyte. I included that quote because the word “conversation” had leapt out at me. Interestingly, it was the word “belong” that jumped out for Ch ...