Successful Leaders Are Great Coaches
More and more executives are realizing that the successful leader must be a good coach. But what do good coaches do? The authors cover five areas: Care for your teammates, Organize them into their “sweet spot,” Align them around the organization’s purpose and values, Challenge them to reach their full potential, and Help them reach their goals
^ADJ: The role of the manager and leader has changed. It all comes back to helping you team deliver, understand and prioritise an aligned result.
What Super Productive People Do Differently
Being productive is not about doing more, but about doing things in an efficient manner. To understand how some people manage to get a lot more out of their day than the average person, Amantha Imber interviewed them to learn more about their routines, rituals, practices, and work hacks. During her conversations, four practices stood out: 1) Batch your meeting; 2) Avoid using the mouse; 3) Nudge your way to better behavior; 4) Read your work out loud.
^ADJ: This article describes four practices that make sense, a behaviour that I have observed is that people who are really productive, want to be, they design life and work to be productive. Getting the best out of time is an interest of mine, recently I read a book that was recommended 4000 Weeks, which prompted me to put together a 3 page resource on Time Management - if you want a copy send an email to me.
OOPS! Learning from the incident you didn't have
In order to understand how things went wrong, we need to first understand how they went right.
^ADJ: We spend a lot of time thinking about things when they go wrong, but how much time do we spend thinking about the things that are going right, and why?
What Warren Buffett Can Teach You About Life
Warren Buffett is the most famous investor of all time. He is a treasure trove of frameworks, ideas, and insights, most of which apply well-beyond investing. Today's piece shares 8 of my favorite frameworks from the so-called Oracle of Omaha, including their application to your business, career, and life.
^ADJ: Warren Buffett, John D Rockefeller, Steve Jobs, Tim Cook and Satya Nadella - there are always insights, but despite them operating across different centuries, they have a number of traits and ways of thinking that are smiliar - an example would be the singled minded organisational focus.
Four Great Decisions per Year
You only need to make four great decisions per year.
^ADJ: Reducing the number of decisions, and improving the quality of those decisions - what impact would that have?
Illegal Parking Technology in China
^ADJ: Some very cool adaption of existing technology - included this because a) think about the other uses of this - valet parking as an example, b) change the dynamics of the industry - no flatbed truck required.