I’m also shocked at how many people in high level positions think their job is to manage people.
I agree with pretty much all of these… I’m obsessed with great leadership. But when I was young, I wasted years and opportunities not knowing what great leadership looked like. Learn from my mistakes. 21 clear signals you have a great leader: pic.twitter.com/SIumNeomV2 — MATT GRAY (@matt_gray_) March 24, 2024
Good article – worth a read…
Two months ago, my fully remote job of 3 years began a campaign to bring all employees back to office. This confused me, as I was originally hired to be fully remote. I lost that status because we recently moved into a temporary apartment while we shop for our first home. 1/ — Jauwn (@Jauwnio) […]
My first boss in libraries told me how important it was to have a team that had varied backgrounds and skill sets. “Everybody thinks it would be better to have a bunch of underlings who were just like them but that’s the worst thing you could have.” (Of course there was some irony that two […]
I just finished a book called “The Big Fail: What The Pandemic Revealed About Who It Protects and Who it Leaves Behind” which is a fairly even handed look at the Covid pandemic, three years after it began, by the same journalists who wrote “Smartest Guys in the Room” about the Enron scandal. This book […]
This ties into the post I did last week about Rock Stars, Rock Steadies, and Rock Bottoms. As a leader, important to regularly assess if you’re punishing your rock stars for being so good at their job (and maybe ask colleagues too as we all have our blind spots.)
I was recently out for supper with a bunch of friends including one high level manager who oversees a Canada-wide IT team for a large corporation. It was interesting to compare notes about our workplaces. He said he is all about high performers and strongly believes in performance management, expecting high results but also rewarding […]
This isn’t really advice I was given by someone but more of a personal observation I’ve made after seeing it repeatedly over the years. Whenever there is something decided, especially when its some sort of major decision, there’s usually an overt reason people give for the decision but also a covert reason they may or […]
I first heard this advice years ago when I was still in the role of Organization Development Specialist at Regina Public Library. In hindsight, I don’t think I appreciated what an amazing job that was to have right at the start of my library career. Our Director (still the same guy all these years later) […]
