Help, advice, and insight for leaders of all kinds in the tech industry. Curated by Joe Dunn, leaders
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November 17 · Issue #155 · View online
Links, notes and opinions for leaders in the tech industry.
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Help, advice, and insight for leaders of all kinds in the tech industry. Curated by Joe Dunn, leadership coach to CEOs, founders, VPEs, CTOs and many others, based in San Francisco. As always, feel free to forward to leaders, managers and others who may find this useful. Received a forwarded copy? Sign up here!
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3 Reasons Why Leading With Fear Is a Terrible Idea
Yep - fear gets people moving, particularly in the short-term, but limits creative thinking, stifles opinions and, over time, demotivates (quite apart from the fact that scaring and bullying people is a shitty thing to do). A good reminder.
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New Research: How Humble Leaders Unblock Decision-Making
“Seven years of research show how humble leaders use vulnerability to build decisive teams”. Interesting and backed up by good arguments. (Ad note: monster ads on the page).
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Listening, 4: No One Listens – Chelsea Troy
A fantastic post from Chelsea Troy - she tracks how much people listen to her and discovers, even when they’ve asked her opinion, that they show signs of really listening only 30% of the time. Apart from anything else, it’s a small masterclass in what to look for in listening - in others and, of course, yourself.
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What Great Listeners Actually Do
Inspired by Chelsea’s post, I found this from HBR. It’s practical, backed up with research, and gets beyond the usual “what I heard you say was…” kind of advice. (Ad note: big signup popover).
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Illusion of Transparency: Your Poker Face is Better Than You Think
“Of course they know what I’m feeling”, you think as you sit and stew, or be bored, or even excited. But, no, they don’t. Cool article. “If you want someone to know your mental state, you need to tell them in the clearest terms possible. You can’t make assumptions. Being subtle about your feelings is not the best idea, especially in high-stakes situations”
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Makers, Don't Let Yourself Be Forced Into the 'Manager Schedule' | Inside Nuclino
Makers need long stretches of uninterrupted, focussed time. Managers bounce from meeting to meeting, email to email, and interruption to interruption. Once you become a manager, carefully realize when you are expecting the Makers around you to conform to a Manager schedule (meetings mid-morning, multiple meetings a day etc etc).
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Culture Balances: Intro - Redbubble - Medium
More about balance and how to approach it than culture, but still interesting. Black and White thinking is pretty prevalent in the industry, and it has its place, but having a couple of techniques to look at the spaces between the extremes is powerful.
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What Is My Culture? - John Obelenus - Medium
A thoughtful piece on how to go from “I value belief X” to “I want belief X to be expressed in the daily things we do” - implementing culture, in other words. A good meditation on how to implement a specific belief/value.
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“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” ― Stephen R. Covey “Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone” — David Whyte
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