"Work Rules! Insights From Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead", 2015, Hatchette Book Group, page 126.
Sunday, December 9, 2018
be humble and grounded
Saturday, December 8, 2018
the balance between giving and taking
Gauge the balance between giving and taking. Givers offer assistance, share knowledge, and focus on introducing and helping others. Takers attempt to get other people to do something that will ultimately benefit them, while they act as gatekeepers of their own knowledge.
[Adam] Grant’s conclusion is clear: a willingness to help others is not just the essence of effective cooperation and innovation — it is also the key to accelerating your own performance.
"Help Your Team Do More Without Burning Out" Harvard Business Review. Oct. 15, 2018
Friday, December 7, 2018
calm is contagious
[Commander Rorke T.] Denver told the story of his final training exercise as a Navy SEAL, where students in training have to plan, organize and execute a mission all "under the watchful eye of the lunatic Navy SEAL instructor." His team was behind the clock, and they were in trouble.
He recounts how his ranking officer (also a student in training) was "screaming his head off like the Tasmanian devil," and added, "The fevered pitch level of everyone's behavior was just unsustainable."
Amidst the chaos, the master chief petty officer, the senior ranking enlisted man in the United States Navy — who Denver said is a basic training "god" — came over and told all the officers to gather.
He told them:
"As officers, at a minimum, the boys are going to mimic your behavior. In our line of work, based on our personalities, they're probably going to amplify your behavior, and athletes are the exact same way. As leaders, as captains, as officers, if you keep your head, they'll keep their head. If you keep it together, they'll keep it together. And if you lose it, they'll lose it.
So I'm going to share with you the best thing I learned as a master chief when I was a new guy from a master chief in Vietnam: Calm is contagious."
And as he walked away, Commander Denver heard him say, "Because if you keep your head in our line of work, you keep your head!"
"A former Navy SEAL shares the No. 1 leadership lesson he learned in military training" Business Insider. Feb. 19, 2017
Thursday, December 6, 2018
assessing your culture
Ed Schein, now retired from the MIT School of Management, taught that a group's culture can be studied in three ways: by looking at its "artifacts," such as physical space and behaviors; by surveying the beliefs and values espoused by group members; or by digging deeper into the underlying assumptions behind those values.
As Adam Grant of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and it's youngest-ever tenured professor told me: "People interpret strong cultures based on the artifacts because they're the most visible, but the values and assumptions underneath matter much more.""
"Work Rules! Insights From Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead", 2015, Hatchette Book Group, pages 29-30.
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
seek out learning opportunities
Don’t wait for learning opportunities to be handed to you. Seek them out and volunteer to take them on. And if you don’t see the opportunities in your own organization, find them outside your professional work in a community group, a non-profit, or a religious organization, which are often hungry for leaders to step in and step up. For example, Wharton’s Stew Friedman has described how one young manager who aspired to become a CEO joined a city-based community board, which allowed him to hone his leadership skills; three years later, he was on a formal succession track for CEO.
"The 6 Fundamental Skills Every Leader Should Practice" Harvard Business Review. Oct. 24, 2018
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